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Fred D Aguiar Inspirational Quotes (20)

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If you created a place in air where they're breathing and running around in, and then they speak in that fictional milieu, it's perfectly authenticated because the whole world relies on you, who've made it possible.
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People were always hungry, bullied, afraid, paranoid - so I just thought I'd show that in the novel in a kind of suffocating way.
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With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity.
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People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life.
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I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.
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Much of the visualizing is imaginative.
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If you die without agency as a child, but you have agency in your body [in the novel], how is it to be enacted unless it is being reimagined by a writer?
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Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.
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Eliot said that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. What he meant by that is, the emotional understanding comes before you understand the argument that follows later in the text.
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The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader emotionally, the reader can't guarantee the lessons they would like to learn.
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People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.
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If you're just mired in privilege, there's nothing to learn learning appears to be over.
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Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.
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At bottom, I'm a cheerful person.
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I want a theory to come out to guide policy.
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I can't stay engaged for years with a book unless it has feelings. It can't be an idea for me - it has to be a felt thing.
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Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way.
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To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you're putting words in their mouths.
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I usually feel something before I know it.
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Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that led people to survive and take stock and move on with some kind of notion of betterment.
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