"I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."

-- Manuel Puig

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“I could never work in a recording studio where you have this lovely view and a beach and the waves are crashing. For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison. And you can create beauty when you're in that sort of deprived environment, which is a re-creation of your formative years.”
“I've always seen L.A. as a giant kind of laboratory for ideas in a caldron for concepts where you can try anything you want to and if it fizzles, so what, you try something else.”
“I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. Sheâ€™s hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it.”
“And I realized that Iâ€™d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.”
“I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.”
“Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.”

Source : Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.68, W. W. Norton & Company
“My life is so much better, it's so much more enriched if I make the effort, if I actually celebrate with gladitude the fact that I get to be on this gorgeous planet.”
“The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.”

Source : "The Works of His Grace, George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, Volume 2". Book by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham ("Letter to Mr. Clifford, on his Human Reason", p. 105), 1770.

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