"They say great themes make great novels"

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Source : John O'Hara (1977). “"An artist is his own fault": John O'Hara on writers and writing”, Southern Illinois University

John O'Hara

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“The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting from here, the initiatic itinerary leads the being first to extinction in the divine Unity, which abolishes all perception of created things. But spiritual realization, if it is complete, arrives afterwards at the "second station of separation" where the being perceives simultaneously the one in the multiple and the multiple in the one.”
“I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security case on Libya.”
“Those who fear the new are the ones who have mastered the old.”
“Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when they're watching the ticket slither by.”
“Wagner festival was [Adolf Hitler] time with the Wagner family. [Eva Braun] asked once to attend but he forbade it and that was that, she never asked again.”
“The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.'”

Source : Simon Doonan (2008). “Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
“When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.”
“One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.”

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