"I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting."

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Source : "In truth" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.

Andrew O'Hagan

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“My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that only knowledge counts, which is a neat formulation. But melancholy [men] from the northern mists understand that opinion is all there is. The great questions transcend fact, and discourse is a process of personality. Knowledge cannot respond to knowledge. And wisdom? Is it not opinion refined, opinion killed and resuscitated upward? Maybe Plato would have agreed with this.”

Source : "Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays".
“Time is our present breath.”
“I think it was the same thing that really makes the premise of this film [Women of Wall Street] compelling: the idea of a woman negotiating issues around power and money, which are two things that have historically been denied to women. To see a woman operate successfully, but still find those barriers a result of that historical and systemic bias in her pursuit to the top, is a really interesting struggle.”
“Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.”
“The deep, intimate connection I am searching for is within me. I am all that I am looking for. I am love. All is well.”
“I like to discover new things.”
“Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.”
“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.”

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