"It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There is an alienation from emotion in it, a Nervous Nelly fear of letting go and being "exposed." As an attitude towards life, it betrays a perpetual adolescence. Those who hurled themselves after Derrida were not the most sophisticated but the most pretentious, and least creative members of my generation of academics."

-- Camille Paglia

#Letting Go Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Reading Quotes

“I do my best to allow myself to really feel it [emotional pain]. Cry. Get all in it. Really experience my experience so that I may move through it. And talk about it. I try not to let anything get brushed over and swept under the rug.”
“I don't like showing my privacy online.”

Source : "Eduardo Saverin Finally Opens Up: 'No Hard Feelings Between Me And Mark Zuckerberg'" by Anderson Antunes, www.forbes.com. May 27, 2012.
“I'm interested in color belonging to something, where it takes on a completely new kind of vibrancy, rather than being what you would call straight abstract paintings. And anyway it is so much more exciting trying to find out about the three dimensions of color and sticking it down on a two dimensional surface.”
“Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.”
“Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.”

Source : "LatinoBuzz: An Interview with Lemon Andersen". Interview with Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. October 3, 2017.
“The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.”
“Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.”
“Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.”

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