"One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes"
- Sarah Vowell
About this Quote
This quote by Sarah Vowell is a metaphor for her inner battles and stress and anxieties. The "killers in her head" represent her unfavorable ideas and feelings that she has been attempting to suppress. The "phase in Massachusetts" is a representation of her frame of mind, and the "program tunes" are her efforts to minimize her circumstance. The quote suggests that she had the ability to take an action back and look at her inner chaos objectively, and discover a way to handle it. By singing show tunes, she was able to discover a method to express her sensations and make them more bearable. The quote is a tip that it is possible to find a way to cope with our inner struggles, even if it is something as easy as singing reveal tunes.
This quote is written / told by Sarah Vowell somewhere between December 27, 1969 and today. He/she was a famous Author from USA.
The author also have 25 other quotes.
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"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree"
"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress"
"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots"
