Alex Shakar Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.”
-- Alex Shakar

Source : Alex Shakar (2009). “The Savage Girl”, p.24, Harper Collins

#Community Quotes #Want Quotes #Internet Quotes

“Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there to give us the love and devotion our children will never fully give us.”
-- Alex Shakar

#Dog Quotes #Children Quotes #Cat Quotes

“Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.”
-- Alex Shakar

#Childhood Quotes #Mind Quotes #Age Quotes

“She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.”
-- Alex Shakar

Source : Alex Shakar (2011). “Luminarium”, p.165, Soho Press

#Stupidity Quotes #Deep Thought Quotes #Empty Quotes

“You need contradictions to make an ideal.”
-- Alex Shakar

#Needs Quotes #Contradiction Quotes

“From the beauty they deserve will come the love they deserve. And from the love will follow truth.”
-- Alex Shakar

Source : Alex Shakar (2009). “The Savage Girl”, p.26, Harper Collins

#Deserve Quotes

“Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities have a good, long run. Plus, cities are beautiful creatures in their own right; and as with us, their vulnerability and ephemerality are part of that beauty.”
-- Alex Shakar

#Beautiful Quotes #Running Quotes #Cities Quotes

“That's the problem with relationships, It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?”
-- Alex Shakar

Source : Alex Shakar (2011). “Luminarium”, p.202, Soho Press

#Way Quotes #Holding On Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities have a good, long run. Plus, cities are beautiful creatures in their own right; and as with us, their vulnerability and ephemerality are part of that beauty.”
-- Alex Shakar

Source : "Cities Are Beautiful Creatures; 10 Questions For Alex Shakar". Interview with Lindsey Drager, www.hobartpulp.com. October 1, 2011.

#Beautiful Quotes #Running Quotes #Cities Quotes

“I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.”

“Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.”

“The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.”

“I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.”

“I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.”

“Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara”

“The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it's difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine.”

“The thing about quotes on the internet is that you can't confirm their validity.”

“The difficult thing with quotes on the internet is verifying them”

“As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet”