"The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us."

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Source : Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.9, Algonquin Books

Steve Almond

#Life Quotes #Answers Quotes #Freak Quotes

“May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.”
“Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.”
“I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams as such, or fantasy.”

Source : Thomas H. Garver, George Tooker (1987). “George Tooker”, Rizzoli International Publications
“It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.”
“Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu”
“One line on the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines. They'll be the hardest farewells I'll have to make in my life and they're the luckiest fortune I've met in my lifetime.”
“In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.”
“Age ain't got nothing to do with how old you are.”

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