Paul Zindel quotes
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“Our life would be what we made of it--nothing more, nothing less.”
-- Paul ZindelSource : Paul Zindel (2011). “The Pigman”, p.139, Graymalkin Media
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“In fact, the thing Lorraine and I liked best about the Pigman was that he didn't go around saying we were cards or jazzy or cool or hip. He said we were delightful . . .”
-- Paul ZindelSource : Paul Zindel (2000). “Pigman with Related Reading”
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“She thinks she knows everything that goes on inside me, and she doesn’t know a thing. What did she want from me – to tell the truth all the time? To run around saying it did matter to me that I live in a world where you can grow old and be alone and have to get down on your hands and knees and beg for friends? A place where people just sort of forget about you because you get a little old and your mind’s a bit senile or silly? Did she think that didn’t bother me underneath?”
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“Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.”
-- Paul ZindelSource : Paul Zindel (2000). “Pigman with Related Reading”
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“I like storytelling. We all have an active thing that we do that gives us self-esteem, that makes us proud; it's necessary. I have to tell stories because that's the way the wiring went in.”
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“It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet.”
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“You're a bore, I said to me. You're puny. You're lacking in quality, like a pair of factory-rejected Fruit of the Loom shorts. And this was without considering any sexual problems, since I've never had sex with anyone except myself.”
-- Paul Zindel
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“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”
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Source : What to Listen for in Music (1939) ch. 2
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“Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.”
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“Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.”
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“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”
Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
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“I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.”
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“He'd made sure i had something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.”
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“False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.”
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