Kalinskaya Quotes & Sayings

Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres. — Neel Mukherjee

Kestrel could read an expression as if looking through shifting water to see the grainy bottom, the silt rising or settling, the dart of a fish. — Marie Rutkoski

A crucial difference between lite libertarians and the Right kind is that to the former, the idea of liberty is propositional - a deracinated principle, unmoored from the realities of history, hierarchy, biology, tradition, culture, values. Conversely, the paleolibertarian grasps that ordered liberty has a civilizational dimension, stripped of which the libertarian non-aggression axiom, by which we all must live, cannot endure. — Ilana Mercer

Do you realize that a middle-class couple, one archaeologist, one dolls' expert, can't move from their house because ancient spirits are blocking them in? It's a reasonable sort of day's experience, isn't it? — Robert Holdstock

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along. — Arthur C. Clarke

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life. — John Cassavetes

Let the desire to be understood become someone else's elusive dream. Accept we are all evolving & can be relatable mainly for reasons associated to self. — Truth Devour

Art is an emotional experience — Tony Curtis

Dancing? Not only do I have two left feet, but they're different sizes. And I don't put them in shoes - I store them in glass jars in my basement. — Jarod Kintz

We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place. — Annie Dillard

I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip. — Rachel Nichols

And you have a bad habit of pretending like you don't need people." There was a bite in his tone. "I'm not sorry I kissed you. — Jennifer Wilson

I'm not a person that socializes very well. — Paulo Coelho

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence. — Thomas Carlyle

Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It's an animalistic instinct for survival. — Elie Tahari