"I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time. You know, it's lie-around-the-bed time, it's sitting-like-a-dope-in-your-chair time. And that seems to me essential to any work."

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Source : Grace Paley, Gerhard Bach, Blaine H. Hall (1997). “Conversations with Grace Paley”, p.110, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Grace Paley

#Lying Quotes #Writing Quotes #Dope Quotes

“How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.”

Source : Karen Thompson Walker (2012). “The Age of Miracles”, p.82, Simon and Schuster
“Growing up, being a rapper wasn't my goal, but it became my destination.”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net
“Death is better than slavery.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child (2011). “The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.96, Cambridge University Press
“I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It's just hard to get comfortable with Gore - it was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.”
“You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you donâ€™t open them.”
“I don't know how I kept sane - maybe I'm not sane”
“You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.”
“When will rappers & skanks realize God's not the only one who gets to judge them on their actions? We do too. It's called CONSEQUENCES.”

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