"The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Trying Quotes #Stories Quotes #Elude Quotes

“I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tenticles and get bad results elsewhere.”
“With Amaryllis in Blueberry, Christina Meldrum has woven a beautifully layered, intensely emotional story, with unforgettable characters whose voices will remain with you long after their secrets have been revealed.”
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
“During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.”
“There are some writers who also enjoy being authors, and are good at it as well. There is nothing performative about writing, but there is about being a writer.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.
“It was a relationship with occasional moments of beauty, but one that had never found it's balance.”
“Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.”
“I don't think you get anything good if you just accept everything the way it rolls out. You have to fight for what you believe in.”

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