Kij Johnson quotes
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“Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection.”
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“Cats have a sort of game they play when they meet. A player alternates between watching the strange cat and ignoring her, grooming or examining everything around herself - a dead leaf, a cloud - with complete absorption. It is almost accidental how the two cats approach, a sidelong step and then the sitting again. This often ends in a flurry of spitting and slashing claws, too fast to see clearly, and then one or the other (or both) of the cats leap out of range. The game can have one exchange or many - and is not so different from the first meetings of women.”
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“Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.”
-- Kij JohnsonSource : Kij Johnson (2001). “The Fox Woman”, p.180, Macmillan
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“Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.”
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“I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?”
-- Kij JohnsonSource : Kij Johnson (2001). “The Fox Woman”, p.57, Macmillan
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“We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can see a snag in a robe without pulling on the loose thread.”
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“Because if something does go wrong, you'll need what you're feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.”
-- Kij JohnsonSource : Kij Johnson (2012). “At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories”, p.236, Small Beer Press
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Source : Jenny Han (2010). “The Summer I Turned Pretty”, p.215, Simon and Schuster
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“I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.”
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Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Source : Adam Hochschild (2011). “King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa”, p.356, Pan Macmillan
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“For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.”
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“A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.”
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