"In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?"

-- Manuel Puig

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“After years spent trying to deal with the effects of COINTELPRO, my rage at the FBI's almost unimaginable evil remains undiminished because I believe that it succeeded in many of its horrifying goals, given the deaths of Martin King, Malcolm X, and other sixties leaders. Since the FBI uses taxpayer dollars to fund its extreme and ridiculous investigations of anyone who expresses dissenting opinions, even resorting to crime - including theft, encouragement to murder, subornation of perjury, and manipulation of the judicial process - to achieve its ends, I have always advocated its disbanding.”
“My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.”
“You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the press-and, given that it cost the GDP of a small country and that Charlize Theron and the director, Karyn Kusama, are critics' darlings, this could mean but one thing: A stinker. A weapon of mass destruction. A planet-killer. Folks, I'll never understand studios. Aeon Flux is not that terrible.”
“I just work. I'm doing shows, and I get love everywhere I go, so I would say I'm doing something right. I don't really sit here and dwell on it. I just do what I gotta do, and keep moving.”
“The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.”

Source : José Raúl Capablanca (1921). “Chess Fundamentals”, Harcourt
“Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope.”

Source : "Greg Mortenson: 'Ordinary Oprah'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 12, 2009.
“I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.”

Source : Yayoi Kusama (2013). “Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama”, p.124, Tate Enterprises Ltd
“To me, the coolest riffs are composed of two guitar parts that interlock like gears. You need both parts to make whole. I work things out on an electric that's not plugged in to make sure a good tone isn't forgiving a part that couldn't stand up naked. Only after the parts are written will I struggle to find a tone that supports the creativity.”

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