Elizabeth McCracken New Orleans is still the place where you find out that you have a doppelganger and feel lucky – but somehow unsurprised – to learn that his name is Mad Bottom. – Elizabeth McCracken Doppelganger Quotes Feel Quotes Learn Quotes Lucky Quotes Mad Quotes Orleans Quotes Unsurprised Quotes When I first met my husband, he was sculpting Vilnius out of clay – a sort of Vilnius, anyhow: a map of an imaginary European city based on the Lithuanian capital – to illustrate his second novel. I work in my office on the campus of the University of Texas. It’s the sort of place described as ‘book-lined’, but it’s recently tipped over into ‘fire-hazard’ territory.
Katherine Dunn My dad was a third-generation printer and linotype operator, by all accounts a fabulous ballroom dancer. He was jettisoned from the family before I was 2, and I have never met him and have no memory of him. – Katherine Dunn
Andrew Strauss The only thing I’d say about Darrell Hair is that he is a very good umpire. He’s very firm and he obviously sticks to his guns. I wouldn’t have any qualms about him coming back into Test cricket. – Andrew Strauss
Richard Dreyfuss I love the ideals of my country. But I hate that we’ve been so denied any real knowledge of the world and don’t have the education to think clearly, so we vote against our economic interest and believe in our most shallow first thoughts of fear and hatred. – Richard Dreyfuss
ArchitectureRick Perlstein Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry’s very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress. – Rick Perlstein
HumorMichael Moore I’ve been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they’re loath to do that because they think if it’s a documentary it has to be deadly serious – it has to be like medicine that you’re supposed to take. And I think it’s what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries. – Michael Moore
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