Benjamin De Casseres Quotes
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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
Varley O'Connor
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When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'
Taylor Swift
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
Farnaz Fassihi
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
Damon Galgut
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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
Walt Whitman
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
Viggo Mortensen
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My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
Dan Jenkins
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Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
Karl Abraham
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If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.
Ian Lustick
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To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.
Vidya Balan
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If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't know why. It's a little sick and demented.
Damien Chazelle
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Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.
Manny Farber
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
Oliver Herford
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We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?
Amy Poehler
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Must beauty blossom, rooted in decay,
And night devour its flaming hues alway?
Clark Ashton Smith
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Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead.
Benjamin De Casseres
