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		'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edmund White 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. G. Ballard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I wrote music as soon as I knew notation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harrison Birtwistle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samuel Larsen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam McKay 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Famke Janssen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Kruger 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Koenig 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taylor Swift 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abraham Lincoln 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Earl Warren 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Peaty 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kapil Dev 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		The Hore-Laval proposals were not so frightfully different from those put forward by the Committee of Five. But the latter were of respectable parentage: and the Paris ones were too much like the off-the-stage arrangements of nineteenth-century diplomacy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I met Michael Jordan on a golf course! I don't even know what to say. I'm still freaked out that I met him. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dierks Bentley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				W. Somerset Maugham 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For years I study. I look long at olive trees, all gray and silver, and watch the sunlight. Ah, yes, I am ver' lazy, but I see after I look long that it is perspective that give it this quality. Perspective, and absolute faith to the subject. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ugo Mochi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mark Rothko 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edmund White