"They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting."

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Source : N. Scott Momaday, Matthias Schubnell (1997). “Conversations with N. Scott Momaday”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

N. Scott Momaday

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“It is strange to hear your mother talk about being human because, honestly, it's too easy to forget.”

Source : Joe Dunthorne (2011). “Submarine”, p.321, Penguin UK
“What's interesting about Twitter is the unmediatedness of it, the directness of it. I'm on a train somewhere in New York and I send out a tweet. Somebody sitting at dinner in Bombay checks their phone and they see it.”
“Joaquin Sabina is one of my favorites. He's like a legend. He's like our Bob Dylan, or our Bruce Springsteen. He's one of the most talented writers of our Latin music.”

Source : "Juanes: A Superstar Slows Down, Shifts Gears". Interview with Mandalit Del Barco, www.kalw.org. August 16, 2012.
“Filming is repetition and many takes”
“Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.”
“Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.”
“No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.”
“And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.”

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