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Maggie Nelson Quotes

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american

Topics

Life Art Cruelty Act Between Made

I'm an insomniac, so my perfect reader is probably another insomniac.

Perfect Reader Another

My dream is to have a gay son.

Part of the process of reading is constantly hitting the pause button, and now and then the rewind button, to ponder a word that's been chosen by the author as exquisitely as the filmmaker chooses an image or a sound editor chooses a sonic clue - the tolling of a bell in the distance to evoke memory, for instance.

Memory Reading Process Distance Now

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

War Cold Cold War Context Middle

In the past, I never gave money to my children when they were young in return for nothing. When one of them approached me to give them cash, I asked them to do some work in exchange for it.

Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi

Work Children Money Past Me Young

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

Equality Things Different Differently

This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It's because kids - and this is the problem with school lunch right now - are getting sugar, fat, empty calories - lots of calories - but no nutrition.

School People Lunch Eating Fat Diet

Man, the '80s were pretty wacky. You had some stuff that was just so rad and some stuff that was just so wrong.

Man You Wrong Pretty Wacky Stuff

When gamers look at games not as overall experiences but as chimeric potpourris of sight and sound, we take too mechanical a perspective and ignore what really makes them special.

Perspective Ignore Look Special Take

Back when I was growing up, if I loved a song, I would record it off of the radio so I could hear them as many times as I wanted.

Growing Up Song Loved Back Growing

A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

Austin O'Malley

You Nothing Break Neck Your Hole

If I were to ask any parent, 'Do you love your kid?' the answer would unequivocally be, 'Yes.' If I went on to ask, 'What would you do to protect your kid from harm's way?' any rational parent would answer without skipping a beat, 'Anything.'

Love Parent You Way Protect Kid

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