Rachel Kushner Quotes

I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.

Rachel Kushner

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I've changed, and I've learned every single year what to do and what not to do. But I still pride myself on going out and doing the right things. Doing what I'm supposed to be doing on both ends of the floor.

Jimmy Butler

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Contrary to assumptions in the law, white America is hardly a monolith.

Jim Webb

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In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.

Jim Bakker

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I have no intention of making vampires cool. Absolutely not. They're not cool.

Joe Gilgun

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My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place.

Andrew Sean Greer

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If we aim to act in harmony with the laws of Good, we rise above all other laws and become a law unto ourselves; co-workers with God and helpers in nature. Ours is the privilege, ours the loss, if we fail to live up to our highest possibilities.

Max Heindel

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The thought of my children growing up in an America with less freedom, less opportunity, and a lower standard of living is a long-term pain I cannot and will not bear.

Jeb Hensarling

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At various points, I've had a massive chip on me shoulder. I had fights about me accent with loads of those fellers you get from third-class public schools. They used to think I was speaking German.

Sid Waddell

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It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

Michael Pitt

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I collect a lot of eco-friendly shopping bags that serve to separate my shoes other and other small stuff in my luggage.

Liu Wen

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Aging followed by death is the price we pay for the immortality of our genes. You find this information soul-killing; I find it thrilling, liberating.

David Shields

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I think I'm a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a voice, not a singer. A voice is a sound, and singing is what you do with that sound.

Brian Wilson

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