"I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work."

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Source : "Helen Oyeyemi: 'I'm interested in the way women disappoint one another'". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2014.

Helen Oyeyemi

#Feels Quotes #Connected Quotes

“Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.”
“I have to say, the Campus Crusade tactic struck me as disingenuous. They rented a hotel ballroom next to a nightclub and set up a fake "party" inside, complete with security guards and flashing lights. When you walked in, instead of drink specials and trance music, they gave you gospel tracts.”
“[Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying but entirely bogus rumble of pleasure.”
“Wild men are so enormously attractive.”
“Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.”
“sex is a commodity just like anything else.”

Source : Sydney Biddle Barrows, William Novak (1987). “Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows”, Ivy Books
“Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.”
“We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.”

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