"Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb."

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Source : Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

Roger Rosenblatt

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“I don't like theatrical actors and actresses. I like people that talk like real human beings.”
“Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as the thing of beauty it once was. Jealous love is no more like true love than Mr Hyde was like Dr Jekyll or a stagnant swamp is like a freshwater lake.”
“Love is always creative, fear always destructive.”
“There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.”

Source : Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.
“History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.”
“The word "God" is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, as a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness -- a literary term, in short; and mankind mean different things by it as their consciousness differs.”
“So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing ...”
“I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theaterâ€”because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line.”

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