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 particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.
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And if you ever - and I do mean ever - try to leave me, I’m goin’ with you.
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When you're in your mid-thirties, the cult of people who have children around you all want you in their cult, and they constantly ask you, 'So when are you going to have a baby?'
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The part of the brain that is watching the television and is on the computer at the same time, preparing to jump onto the treadmill for 15 minutes, might be able to lead into sex, but it would be hard put to lead us to romance, or to real authentic human connection.
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I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.
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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.
