"I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe."

-- Norman Rush

#Character Quotes #Air Quotes #Breathe Quotes

“Every aspect of life is pre-programmed to rise to its highest creative possibility. We don't have to make that happen, but we have to allow it to happen. And that itself is the struggle of life: resisting the resistant mind.”
“I was never pushed into the business. I wanted to play the guitar. When my dad found out I could play pretty good he took me into the studio one day. I did my first session for his label. We did quite a few sessions up there.”
“Thereâ€™s just something about vampires thatâ€™s sexy...Itâ€™s the same reason why women go for the bad boy â€“ you want them but you shouldnâ€™t have them,”
“There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.”
“I find celebrity really scary.”
“Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.”
“We need useless theory more than ever today.”
“Given that the Al Qaeda core has been significantly destroyed or disabled, and that the leadership seems to be essentially on the run or in hiding, it would lead me to think that probably it is one of the less centralized groups that might be the greatest danger.”

Source : "Central Challenges of U.S. Foreign Policy: Five Questions with Graham Allison". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com.

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