"Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two."

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Source : "The Happy Profession". Book by Ellery Sedgwick, ch. 1, 1948.

Ellery Sedgwick

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“The compelling thing about making artâ€”or making anything, I supposeâ€”is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the secrets of the magicians, disposed armies: ah, look, there it is, the new thing. Call it a swine, a war, a laurel tree. Call it art.”
“I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors.”

Source : Jim Shepard (2008). “Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories”, p.130, Vintage
“To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.”
“Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.”
“You think you're funny? I think I'm adorable.”
“I grew up hardcore. I learned to be more responsible - and fiscally responsible - you know, I just wanna be a kid again! Do a musical, have tons of time or something.”

Source : "Lee Daniels and Gabby Sidibe". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 5, 2009.
“I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which Iâ€™m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I donâ€™t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I donâ€™t think anybody does.”
“Hanns Heinz Ewers tells a short story of a boy who was so unnatural of disposition as to take a special delight in people sick with elephantiasis. Our "European intellectuality" finds itself in an identical condition today which, through Jewish pens, worships the Kokoschka, Chagalls and Pechsteins as the leaders of the Art of the future. Features of degeneracy are already apparent, as, for instance, with Schwalbach, who dares representing Jesus as flat footed and bow legged.”

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