"We are born knowing death."

-- Katherine Anne Porter

#Knowing Quotes #Born Quotes

“His words were still clear in her mind from that first meeting. "Whoever eats this will love you." She looked into the mirror, at her birthmark, bright as blood, at her kiss-stung lips, at the absurd smile stretching across her face. Carefully separating out the crushed pieces of shell, she pulled the dried pulp free from its cage of veins. Piece by piece, she put the sweet brown fruit in her own mouth and swallowed it down.”
“Read to your bunny often and your bunny will read to you.”
“By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.”

Source : Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.85, MIT Press
“A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form for industrial education. These two points should be insisted upon. Let the normal instruction be that men must earn their own living, and that by the labor of their hands as far as may be. This is the gospel of salvation for the colored man. Let the labor not be servile, but in manly occupations like that of the carpenter, the farmer, and the blacksmith.”
“It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best.”
“Mmmmm. Warm chocolate chip cookies. Not even AB negative can compare.”
“i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. then you write for who you love whether they can read or write or not and whether they are alive or dead.”
“I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.”

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