"But I think Cybil was my biggest fan. She cut out my articles and hung them in her locker and we were always cracking up how if you wrote the simplest, most obvious thing in the world people thought you were a genius."

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Source : Blake Nelson (2008). “Girl”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

Blake Nelson

#Cutting Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“They pay money to watch the same film. Now, you could argue, that's because it makes them feel comfortable. When they go to a movie now, it's almost like hearing a pop song. You know the rhythms, you know when the downbeat is going to come, you know when the explosion is going to comeâ€¦ And so as life becomes more complex, as the economy is in trouble, people cling to what makes them comfortable, so they go again and again to see the same movie.”
“Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.”
“Don’t coach for the name on your business card”
“I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs. Give them no tear! Tears pleasure them! Show honor now, show a stony heart and sink them with it!”
“When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.”
“The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication" (a preposterous term) for breadth and depth of learning in the world history of art and thought. ... Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Overconcentration on any one point is a distortion. This is one of the primary reasons for the dullness and ineptitude of so much twentieth-criticism, as compared to nineteenth-century belles-lettres.”
“As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Representative Jared Polis (D, Colo.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 29, 2010.
“I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.”

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