"Franz Kafka is a huge influence, more than the Grimms. To allow yourself to get into the coal bucket and fly to the sky ... we learned that from Kafka, that you can have a thought and make a body of it in this way."

-- Lore Segal

#Influence Quotes

“As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution.”
“...cast from your heart the bitterness...”
“If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization which is there.”
“We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.”
“When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 11, 2011
“I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.”
“Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.”
“We credit most our sight; one eye doth please Our trust farre more than ten eare-witnesses.”

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