"I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all behaviors somewhere within yourself."

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Source : Source: www.believermag.com

Luc Sante

#Requirements Quotes #Emotion Quotes #Behavior Quotes

“To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.”
“To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.”

Source : Dashiell Hammett (1965). “The novels of Dashiell Hammett”
“I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious”
“And she was fair as is the rose in May.”
“But music doesn't sum up my approach to literature - even in Vain Art of the Fugue. To 'fugue' I had to invent 'trap-words,' or words that would force the narrator to turn around and start his path anew.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We all enter this world in the same way: naked, screaming, soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there.”
“Love is the way messengers from the mystery tell us things”
“You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.”

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