"I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier."

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Karen Russell

#New York Quotes #Writing Quotes #Stories Quotes

“But just as it sometimes happens that the most temperate people, who have never acquired the habit of drinking alcohol, or even a taste for it, are tormented by the fear that somehow or other they will one day find themselves drunk, so Isabelle perpetually feared that she might be betrayed into an impulsive act that was destructive to such order as reason had imposed on life. Therefore she was forever running her faculty of analysis over in her mind with the preposterous zeal of an adolescent running a razor over his beardless chin.”
“Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.”
“This is what I have heard at last the wind in December lashing the old trees with rain unseen rain racing along the tiles under the moon wind rising and falling wind with many clouds trees in the night wind.”
“... the next revolution ... will be when those who work refuse to support those who don't.”
“My changeup looks like a fastball, but one goes straight and the other goes away from the righthanded hitter. Sometimes it cuts by itself, and I don't know where it's going.”
“God doesn't just give us grace; He gives us Jesus, the Lord of grace.”
“I find this life so interesting.”

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