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One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability. Jean Baudrillard
I feel sick when I look at the parody synopsis, at the letters from the film company... The novel is 'about' a colour problem. I said nothing in it that wasn't true. But the emotion it came out of was something frightening, the unhealthy, feverish illicit excitement of wartime, a lying nostalgia, a longing for licence, for freedom, for the jungle, for formlessness. It is so clear to me that I can't read that novel now without feeling ashamed, as if I were in a street naked. Yet no one else... Doris Lessing
Walter Scott quote: "Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself..."
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land. Walter Scott
Terry Prachett quote: "Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going..."
Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again. Terry Prachett
Robert Henri quote: "I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need..."
I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul Robert Henri
J. M. Barrie quote: "The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting..."
The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing. J. M. Barrie
You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere marriage but some profoundly sad realization of something in me she really needs to go on living, at least that impression coming across anyway on the force of all the gloom we've shared - Jack Kerouac
You don't know what's after the desert?"Kennerly shrugged. "Some might. The coach ran through part of it fifty years ago. My pap said so. He used to say 'twas mountains. Others say an ocean... a green ocean with monsters. And some say that's where the world ends. That there ain't nothing but lights that'll drive a man blind and the face of God with his mouth open to eat them up. Stephen King
Charlaine Harris quote: "I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left...."
I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left. That was a tough exit line to top. Charlaine Harris
Edwidge Danticat quote: "If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there..."
If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters. Edwidge Danticat
Ernest Hemingway quote: "But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be..."
But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Ernest Hemingway
Dr. Ambrose himself told Mark Nechtr...that the problem with young people, starting sometime in about the 1960s, is that they tend to live too intensely inside their own social moment, and thus tend to see all existence past age thirty or so as somehow postcoital. It's then that they'll relax, settle back, sad animals, to watch- and learn, as Ambrose himself said he learned from hard artistic and academic experience- that life instead of being rated a hard R, or even a soft R, actually rarely... David Foster Wallace
Jad said, "The leakage was forcing choices, the making of which in no way improved matters."Okay. So we were, in effect, locked in a room with a madman sorcerer. That clarified things a little. Neal Stephenson
Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambition. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I'm beyond your peripheral vision. So you might want to turn your head. Cause someday you might find you're starvingand eating all of the words you said. Ani DiFranco
How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes. Jonathan Franzen

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