"I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? You don't really develop feelings about a place till you've left it. It's like a girl or a dog."

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Source : Adam Rapp (2010). “Punkzilla”, p.2, Candlewick Press

Adam Rapp

#Girl Quotes #Dog Quotes #Years Quotes

“He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.”
“Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you read like a reader, you identify with the characters in the story. The story is what you learn about. When you read like a writer, you identify with the author and learn about writing.”
“Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.”
“Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.”
“Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.”
“Our insanity is not that we see people who arenâ€™t there. Itâ€™s that we ignore the ones who are.”

Source : Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.58, SCB Distributors
“If I hadn't had Freddie Mercury's lyrics to hold on to as a kid I don't know where I would be. It taught me about all forms of music... it would open my mind. I never really had a bigger teacher in my whole life.”
“America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.”

Source : Attributed in Saturday Review of Literature, 1 Dec. 1945

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