"First one gets works of art, then criticism of them, then criticism of the criticism, and, finally, a book on The Literary Situation , a book which tells you all about writers, critics, publishing, paperbacked books, the tendencies of the (literary) time, what sells and how much, what writers wear and drink and want, what their wives wear and drink and want, and so on."

-- Randall Jarrell

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“I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.”
“It's a cliche that filmmaking is a team sport. However, let me say just say it again: filmmaking is a team sport.”
“I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.”
“A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.”
“Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.”
“The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.”
“I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.”
“A circus of stars, your dreams a trapeze, faces lift like mirrored moons.”

Source : Imtiaz Dharker (2007). “The Terrorist at My Table”, p.156, Penguin Books India

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