Ananda Lima > Quotes

“We liked the unapologetic angles and openness in modernist architecture and suffered from a nostalgia for its past imagination of the future.”
― Ananda Lima, Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

“Immersed in the present, it can be hard to know where to look. Sometimes you need the distance to fully appreciate the view, to see mountaintops surrounding the creek and know that if you had kept going farther to the left, you would have seen a canyon so vast, it is hard to believe you missed it.”
― Ananda Lima, Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

“I’m only interested in what is not mine. —Oswald de Andrade, The Cannibalist Manifesto, 1928”
― Ananda Lima, Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

“I'd thought I was the eater, but America had been eating me the whole time, from within.”
― Ananda Lima, Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

“Speaking of the Devil, a totally random, but maybe helpful reference: I am reading this book (not a novel, an academic work on political theology). It compares the neoliberal worldview to a theology and talks about how the idea of freedom is used to assign the source of evil to individual choices (i.e. we are all given just enough choice to be deemed responsible for the bad stuff).”
― Ananda Lima, Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil