#ola

I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around recklessly, where I’m almost overwhelmed with the amount of attention and love I receive from Mami’s family. In New York, I’m invisible. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#coming-of-age #family #home #identity #invisibility

He's very concealed, Polanski. We became very close friends, but I don't think I ever saw him drop his guard. I didn't see him upset or anything like that, we just did the work. ↗

— Ronald Harwood

#became #close #close friends #concealed #did

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#comes #completely #crises #crisis #gets

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#either #every #every man #his #man

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#courage #final #hell #how #i

Isolation is a big part of songwriting. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#isolation #part #songwriting

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking. ↗

— Ahmad Jamal

#am #finished #i #i am #i do

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#i #i think #isolation #obstacle #political

Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#associated #bit #body #extremely #few

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#conscious #conscious thought #esquire #i #scholar