"I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Wallace Shawn

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #United States Quotes

“I hate [ebooks]. It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of book! A book is a book is a book.”
“Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.”
“The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.”
“I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.”
“Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do.”
“I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.”
“Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I doâ€”back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.”
“I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.”

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