"I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected."

-- Marcel Dzama

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“Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.”
“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”

Source : Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.146, Vintage
“The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.”

Source : Michael Foot's remarks on the Profumo Scandal, 1963.
“I want to be a monster too”
“Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.”
“Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.”
“I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million.”
“Do you feel better?â€ I asked Sam as he opened the door to the Volkswagen for me. â€œYes,â€ he said. He was still a terrible liar. â€œGood,â€ I said. I was still a fantastic one.”

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