Colson Whitehead Quotes

Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else you are lying.

Colson Whitehead

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SlaveryYouLyingSystemViolent

I love the Army-Navy surplus store Surplus Value Center. They have really good long underwear and multicolored bandanas, cool camo jackets, and really, really scary-looking knives. If you're into that sort of thing.

Jill Soloway

LoveGoodValueCoolLongYou

Your whole childhood is just absent of choices. And then you become an adult, and every choice you make, you open some doors and close others.

Maya Hawke

ChildhoodChoicesDoorsYouChoice

One of the things I have noticed about my novels is that they all concern people who can't quite bring themselves to tell the truth about their own lives... I've come to realise that this interest in damaged, untellable stories comes from my parents.

John Lanchester

TruthParentsPeopleTellOwnBring

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

John McCarthy

YouMoreNeverTheorySomething

Fantasy love is much better than reality love.

Andy Warhol

LoveLove IsRealityBetterFantasy

It would be good to rely on the man during my most tired moments. The best is if he will listen to my stories when I am stressed.

Song Hye-kyo

GoodBestManI AmTiredMoments

One of the biggest lessons I've learned is that there has got to be a reason for what you're doing. You actually have to care about what you're doing. The business has to be about something. Whatever the point of it is does not have to be inconsistent with making money, but usually if that's the sole reason, it is not very successful.

Stewart Butterfield

BusinessMoneyCareMaking MoneyYou

Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

WorkInfluenceThinkBecauseI Think

I really believe that if capital doesn't come to the entrepreneurs, the entrepreneurs have no choice but to go to the capital.

Josh Kopelman

BelieveChoiceGoCapitalCome

When Marvel got the rights to Namor, I thought I'd be the perfect fit.

Brian Tee

ThoughtPerfectRightsGotMarvel

Some directors want to make superhero films. That's what gets them off, and they love it, and they love sci-fi. I prefer putting my hands into non-fiction.

Peter Berg

LoveHandsWantSuperheroOffSome

We've grown up on the Beach Boys and the Beatles and Blur and Bowie and the Clash. Also E.L.O. and Hall and Oates. Those are all artists who write songs that are accessible but still left of center. It's intelligent pop. There's still something different and complex about it.

Mark Foster

BeachBlurIntelligentWriteUp

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