David Rakoff Quotes

About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.

David Rakoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: November 27, 1964 - August 9, 2012

Topics

GoodMemoryMeAlwaysGood Memory

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

Jesse Ventura

NatureBestCommunismHuman Nature

Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.

John Kluge

TimeThinkingGoYoungWantAwful

Money isn't automatically freedom. You need to look carefully at what you're doing to earn the money before you can conclude that you are, in practice, free. This is a cost-benefit analysis we should all perform on our own lives.

John Lanchester

FreedomMoneyPracticeFreeDoing

My hits are not hits.

John Mayer

Hits

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

John McEnroe

LifeLearningTimeBestFunMe

We were for Mao, but when we saw the films he was making, they were bad. So we understood that there was necessarily something wrong with what he was saying.

Jean-Luc Godard

SayingBadWrongSomethingSawHe

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

LifeArtThinkTryWorkingAbout

The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to follow the same rules as this world, from gravity to how human behaviour works. If you have a fantasy element that doesn't obey the laws of physics, make sure that it has a fantasy explanation.

Trudi Canavan

WorldFeelYouPhysicsRulesWant

My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s.

Robert Englund

MotherBackCaliforniaSheThings

We've always been kind of an underground band in a way that had the respect of our peers on the road. I like to say we're the world's most famous opening act because we've opened for every huge band on the planet.

Robin Zander

RespectWorldRoadFamousSayKind

I think it actually started in my late thirties. I started changing psychologically, and it was difficult to translate that into my writing.

Mary Gaitskill

WritingThinkLateDifficultStarted

The stars handle it very graciously. They let you know. They know how to play the game.

Mary Hart

StarsGameYouPlayKnowHandle

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