Susan Choi quotes

“Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.”
-- Susan Choi

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“The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.”
-- Susan Choi

Source : "Antiwar Activism, Starring Patty Hearst". Interview with Lynn Andriani, www.publishersweekly.com. June 23, 2003.

#World Quotes #Overwhelming Quotes #Complexity Quotes

“Ive at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, I would give anything for this not to be happening. And, you know, as people say, time passes, and then you think, Im kind of glad that happened to me.”
-- Susan Choi

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if youre charming enough, you can get away with anything.”
-- Susan Choi

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“I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages.”
-- Susan Choi

#Writing Quotes #Trying Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.”
-- Susan Choi

Source : Susan Choi (2014). “American Woman: A Novel”, p.4, Harper Collins

#Gestures Quotes #Shocking Quotes #Habitual Quotes

“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

“Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.”

“The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.”

“In Liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists; that there is nothing to support; that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and You are That.”

“I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support.”

Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

“I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.”

“I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The catalyst that converts any physical location - any environment if you will - into a place, is the process of experiencing deeply. A place is a piece of the whole environment that has been claimed by feelings. Viewed simply as a life-support system, the earth is an environment. Viewed as a resource that sustains our humanity, the earth is a collection of places.”

“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”

Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.

“Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr