Alexis De Veaux Quotes

#1. Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

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#2. Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.

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#3. Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to construct our lives differently so that we are able to become vehicles to transcend, to encompass and articulate not only our own experience but the experiences of others.

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#4. Survival is a four letter word.

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#5. To change is to be vulnerable. And to be vulnerable is to be alive.

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#6. I don't see what people get from hating other people unless it's a special thing I just ain't hip to.

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#7. Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.

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#8. Politics is a word spelled N-O-W.

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#9. A girl is a soul at sunrise.

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#10. Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.

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