"The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness."

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Source : Tobias Wolff (2004). “Old School”, p.8, Vintage

Tobias Wolff

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“The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichÃ©s, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe artists and writers who stayed up all night and ignored the pressures of the industrial world.”

Source : Sarah Thornton (2012). “Seven Days In The Art World”, p.66, Granta Books
“The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.”
“Ideas are easy to come by, they spring effortlessly out of the vacuity of the mind and cost nothing. When they are held and projected onto one's self or others they become a project. When the project is enacted it becomes the work, and when the work is completed it appears to be self-existent. Creation is the process of form manifesting from emptiness, where that which arises from the mind comes into existence. Yet the distance between conception and realisation may be enormous, as vast as the distance between the stars.”
“Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.”
“You have to be able to look back at your life and say, "Yeah, that was fun."”
“If freedom in the imagination is a privilege, it's one I believe everyone should have, as a basic human right. I also believe that poems not only make meaning, but are more often than not engaged in some way with our deepest human issues, be they personal or societal or political.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.”
“I was assigned a Taliban "minder" who followed me everywhere. But he couldn't follow me into homes where there were women, so I took photos inside people's homes.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com

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