"I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more."

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Source : Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.195, A&C Black

Sarah Kane

#Pain Quotes #Emotional Quotes #People Quotes

“Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.”
“In 2005, a man diagnosed with multiple myeloma asked me if he would be alive to watch his daughter graduate from high school in a few months. In 2009, bound to a wheelchair, he watched his daughter graduate from college. The wheelchair had nothing to do with his cancer. The man had fallen down while coaching his youngest son's baseball team.”

Source : Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.444, Simon and Schuster
“Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs.”
“Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano. There are a lot of things that can be done with it, but each is a field of its own. I used to have headaches every time I played octaves, because it was extra strain, but the minute I'd quit I'd be all right. But now I don't have headaches when I play octaves.”
“Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.”
“The humor for me is how far above your head the signature is - it's dislocated from the sign of the artist in such a distinct way that it could almost be a self-portrait of a sort.”

Source : Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.
“The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it too.”
“Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.”

Source : W. P. Kinsella (2003). “The Iowa Baseball Confederacy”, p.172, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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