Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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Accept loss forever.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I don't feel closeted.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
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I was raised on NBC television.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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The biggest mistake in my life was hiring Eaton as chairman without checking him out first, ... I didn't know him and hired the wrong guy, an error of judgment. When you make a bad people choice it hurts a lot of people for a long time.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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I really do like Solange, sincerely. I'm down for her, and I trust her judgment.
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I think love and obsession are almost one and the same thing at some times. Because the person you end up falling in love with, there is an element of obsession in the early days - it's all you can think about.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
