"I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes"

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Source : Interview with Cheryl Morgan, strangehorizons.com. June 9, 2003.

M. John Harrison

#Growing Up Quotes #Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.”
“You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.”
“That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes an immigrant story into an American story .”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
“Children can withstand a lot of pressure and trial from the outside if the home inside is held steady by parents whose character is steady.”
“When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.”
“That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.”

Source : "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.
“I look at a mentor of mine like Ryan Seacrest and the incredible amount of equity he's been able to bring to the broadcasting arena, and the branding and the world that he's been able to build around himself.”

Source : "Terrence J Becomes the Host With the Most on His Plate". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. October 24, 2012.
“A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.”

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