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“It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. . . Without [Theodore] Dreiser's treading out a path for naturalism none of us would have had a chance to publish.”
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“I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang, if this ain't a heck of a way to be in bed with a pretty woman. The two of you arguing about murder, and threatening each other, when you're supposed to be in love and you could be doing something pretty nice. And then I thought, well, maybe it ain't so strange after all. Maybe it's like this with most people, everyone doing pretty much the same thing except in a different way. And all the time they're holding heaven in their hands.”
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“If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.”
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“People hear your records in order, and they think of you as progressing in some direction, but it's not really like that.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
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“And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.”
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“As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.”
Source : Mark Steel (2001). “Reasons to be Cheerful: From Punk to New Labour Through the Eyes of a Dedicated Troublemaker”
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“Not that she didn't love almost every boy she'd ever met, and not that every boy in the world didn't totally love her. It was impossible not to. But she wanted someone to love her and shower her with attention the way only a boy who was completely in love with her could. The rare sort of love. True love. The kind of love she'd never had.”
Source : Cecily von Ziegesar (2012). “Gossip Girl 5: I Like it Like That”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“I'd like to be in a play with Mark Rylance.”
