"I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the gap - at least in the books I was reading - between what people tell stories about and what I actually feel. I started thinking about a gap between fantasy and reality."

-- Signe Baumane

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Reality Quotes

“A few minutes ago, I had a hard time getting through the lobby because of all the people. After today, that won't be happening.”
“I can deal with all the pangs of having to find money in 20 different places because you don't really reap the whirlwind with this cutting-edge music.”

Source : Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.
“It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.”
“I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.”
“Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.”
“It can happen like that. It can build slowly. It can come like a gentle rainfall, or it can slam into you like a tsunami. You are my tsunami, love.”
“One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.”
“The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.”

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