"I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way."

-- Jonathan Lethem

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“At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.”
“It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is Reality. If I have chosen to be a filmmaker as well as a writer it is because, rather than expressing reality through those symbols that are words, I have preferred the cinema as a means of expression - to express reality through reality...”

Source : Pier Paolo Pasolini, Laura Betti (1989). “Pier Paolo Pasolini: a future life”
“In order to discover truth, we must be truthful ourselves, and must welcome those who point out our errors as heartily as those who approve and confirm our discoveries.”
“I admire anyone with their own sense of personal style.”
“Only think of my being alive with a reputation!”

Source : Winslow Homer, Robert W. Schlageter, Cummer Gallery of Art (1977). “Winslow Homer's Florida, 1886-1909: exhibition April 22 to May 29, 1977, Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville”
“The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.”
“Time doesn't flow at the same rate for everyone. You can change time. You can slow it down, you can speed it up.”
“I don't believe in reincarnation, and I didn't believe in it when I was a hamster.”

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