Tama Janowitz > Quotes

“I had a hunger for things I knew realistically I didn't actually care for.”
― Tama Janowitz

“I don't like him...he makes me feel like he's going to throw me in a coffin and walk around on top of it.”
― Tama Janowitz, Slaves of New York

“It was strange how most of the time we got along so well, but then there were these periods when it was a good things the knives were in the drawer and not out on display.”
― Tama Janowitz

“by the time you get to a certain age, you kind of realize everyone has suffered a great deal. You are not unique.”
― Tama Janowitz, Scream: A Memoir of Glamour and Dysfunction

“...and it made me uncomfortable the way this guy was eating a scrawny chicken wing and looking at me. You know, I just wanted to tell him to knock it off and be a person.”
― Tama Janowitz, Slaves of New York

“I don’t know what my greatest fear is; maybe just that I’ll be caught and discovered, accused of being a child in an adult’s body.”
― Tama Janowitz, Slaves of New York

“Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.”
― Tama Janowitz, Slaves of New York

“Often, when she claimed to be cleaning the house, he would come upon her fondling a spoon, attempting—by using psychic energy—to bend it with mind power alone. She insisted this could be done. Yet even if possible, he said, he didn’t need or want their spoons bent.”
― Tama Janowitz, Slaves of New York

“At a mixer at the Art and Architecture School, I met Ray Connors. He had small, worried eyes and fine, babyish hair, already receding. His back was hurting him; two years ago he had fallen down an elevator shaft. He was graduating from the Architecture School in January. He went off to get me a glass of wine; by the time he came back, I had practically forgotten his existence.”
― Tama Janowitz

“I have always had that skill of being able to escape my immediate surroundings by diving into a book;”
― Tama Janowitz, Slaves of New York

“Öyle görünüyor ki biz kadınlar, hem kadınlar hem erkekler tarafından maruz bırakıldığımız kabul edilemez muamele ve davranışları düzeltmek için toplu bir bilinçlenmeyle biraraya gelip güçlerimizi birleştirmezsek, bu gezegende güvensizlik, çaresizlik ve kendinden nefret üstüne kurduğumuz hayatları daha uzun süre yaşamaya mahkum olacağız.”
― Tama Janowitz, Area Code 212

“Kim bilir, sanat simsarı olarak tanıdığımız bütün o zeki ve ince zevkli adamlarda, kendini ressam ya da sanatçı olarak adlandırmaya yetecek kadar kibir yoktu belki de, yaptıkları için bir teşekkürün bile çok görüldüğü eğitmenlerdi onlar yalnızca.”
― Tama Janowitz, Area Code 212