Melinda > Melinda's Quotes

“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

“Time passes. That's for sure.”
― Eileen Myles

“maybe memories are like karaoke-where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't know even half the lyrics to your all-time favourite song. Only afterwards, when someone else is up on stage humiliating themselves amid the clapping and laughing, do you realize that what you liiked most about your favourite song was precisely your ignorance of its full meaning- and you read more into it than maybe existed in the first place. I think it's better to not know the lyrics to your life.”
― Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief

“Here's what I think: the five most
unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and
jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.”
― Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!

“No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. ”
― Betty Friedan

“Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon.”
― Douglas Coupland

“Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.”
― Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief

“Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.”
― Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.”
― Douglas Coupland, Microserfs

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Now - here is my secret:
I tell it to you with an openness of heart that I doubt I shall ever achieve again,
so I pray that you are in a quiet room as you hear these words. My secret is that I need God - that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.”
― Douglas Coupland

“i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people”
― Marge Piercy

“Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.”
― Marge Piercy, He, She and It