"I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting."

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Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

Andrew Lam

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“Keep winning and get to the postseason, I won 20 games and they just dumped one beer on my head. It feels good because I'm helping my team win.”
“The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction ... One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgements of value follow directly from his wihes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments.”
“Jesus Christ opened heaven's door for us by His death on the cross.”
“People are smarter than you might think.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.”
“Make sure that when you agree with everything that's being said and when you feel passionate about your future, you take it into your hands. You do something.”

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“In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show”
“If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?”

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