"Talking about New York is a way of talking about the world."

-- Colson Whitehead

#New York Quotes #Talking Quotes #World Quotes

“People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze out onto a single window that shows me a cement wall. This is a profession, and it's important to have professionalism about the writing.”
“I've been recognized a couple times. I get people staring at me, and I think in their heads they're thinking, 'How do I know her? Did I go to high school with her?' I think it's not registering yet.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't see this as Marty [St. Louis] replacing me. I see this as Marty getting the opportunity he deserves.”
“Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.”
“If you are an enemy to your own mind, other people have to become enemies too, sooner or later. Until you understand, until you can love the thoughts that appear in your mind, then you can love the rest of us. You work with the projector -the mind - not the projected world. I can't really love you until I question the mind that thinks it sees you outside itself . . .”
“It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.”
“Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.”
“My parents reverted to their Catholic faith through the charismatic renewal, so I was raised charismatic.”

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