Mitla Cafe Quotes & Sayings

I'm playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers, that's why I always lose — Josh Stern

The geologist, six years ago now, hadn't defied anything to climb the hill. He'd had his own powerful magic
the ordinary magic that extraordinarily interested people always have. — Elizabeth Knox

I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way. I always like to do the shortcuts and go forward. — Andrea Arnold

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. — June Jordan

Certain barriers do require a critical mass of action at the right time to overcome the inertia that is greater than incremental change. — David Jaber

A shared vision driven by core values is a powerful alchemy. — Colleen Mariotti

They have been having sex for eighteen months now (he realizes he has to make himself stop counting, as if his sexual life is a prison term, and he is working toward its completion). — Hanya Yanagihara