Anna Kavan Quotes
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In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
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I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.
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Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.
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My Pleasure is my business
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.
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Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.
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We be of one blood, ye and I.
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Some weird blue sh*t that someone gave me during our 1992 Australian tour. I didn't eat it.
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It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort.
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I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.
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The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.
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The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast.
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In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon.
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No, my first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got. I wish that I only would have done the SLAYER eagle and not the dragons ´coz I like tribals that stand out from a distance. Like you could be a snowblind in the concert and you are still gonna see it. That´s why I like about it.
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I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.
