Monica Drake quotes
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“When life sucks, throw yourself into art.”
-- Monica DrakeSource : Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.131, Hawthorne Books
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“In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, Get back to who you were meant to be. This is the heart spot, the center. Your whole life the skin on that place will stay closest to being a baby's skin, as close as you can get anymore to the way you started, the way you once thought you'd always be.”
-- Monica DrakeSource : Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.47, Hawthorne Books
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“The only value of wasted time is knowledge.”
-- Monica DrakeSource : Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.228, Hawthorne Books
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“Maybe da Vinci didn’t serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was the lamb led to the slaughter.”
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“The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that’s not the one. When you meet your ‘soulmate’ you’ll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation.”
-- Monica DrakeSource : Monica Drake (2010). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.57, Hawthorne Books
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“In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, “Get back to who you were meant to be.—
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“To read 'Happy Talk' is to crash a party as vivid and surreal as Felini's 8. It's the business of show business, the American dream, told by a chorus of Americans locked just outside of that dream, outside of the United States, relegated to expatriate status on the shores of Haiti. Melo paints a version of Haiti that's an interior landscape perhaps even more than an externalized place. This Haiti is a plan, a memory, a morphine-drip fueled dream out to bond its inhabitants forever.”
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“When you meet your 'soul mate' you'll feel calm. No anxiety, No agitation.”
-- Monica DrakeSource : Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.40, Hawthorne Books
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“Maybe da Vinci didn’t serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was the lamb led to the slaughter.”
-- Monica DrakeSource : Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.192, Hawthorne Books
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Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.”
Source : James Gleick (2011). “Chaos: Making a New Science”, p.326, Open Road Media
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“When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.”
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Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
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