"For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home."

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Source : Valerie Miner (2014). “Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage”, p.30, Open Road Media

Valerie Miner

#Art Quotes #Home Quotes #Writing Quotes

“You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.”
“Only the dead know Brooklyn.”
“Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.”
“Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!”

Source : John C. Bogle (2010). “The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns”, p.74, John Wiley & Sons
“It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.”
“Walmart is committed to fighting hunger in America every day.”
“As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist.”

Source : Jan Hus (1915). “De Ecclesia: The Church”
“the fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what to wear to charm the particular wrong type of man who reads Playboy, while the editorial pages tell her how to cope with the resulting psychic damage.”

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