"Poetry is a totally different art than film."

-- Stan Brakhage

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“If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.”
“Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone, you'll never walk alone.”
“What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.”

Source : Daisaku Ikeda (2000). “The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions”, p.111, Middleway Press
“It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.”
“The Internet is really our meeting place. We have this amazing listserv. Every time I log onto it I feel a sense of pride, because if you log on and say, "Oh I was just in San Diego and I was in a park and I saw a lion," the flurry of replies on average is just like--wow! All these existential questions about what it means to be an African, and never having seen a lion at home, but having seen a lion here. Everything you say turns into this real philosophical debate--it's incredible in so many ways. And it's an invigorating place to be.”
“This gospel has often been spoken of as a way of life. This however is not quite accurate. Consisting as it does of the principles and ordinances necessary to man's exaltation it is not just a way of life, it is the one and only way of life by which men may accomplish the full purpose of their mortality.”
“Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week”
“You take I-55 south, and you'll run into I-20. Or you could take..." I was about to be overloaded with information. "Oh that sounds just perfect. Let me do just that, or I'll lose track." Sure, glad I could help." Oh, you surely did." We beamed at each other, just two nice women. I had to fight an impulse to say "I have a tortured vampire in my trunk," out of sheer giddiness.”

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