"He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had."

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Source : STANISLAW LEM (1974). “THE CYBERIAD”

Stanislaw Lem

“Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance.”
“I had a lot of issues with the genre, and I probably even had issues with the whole idea of genre. I was coming into it with a certain degree of outsider attitude, and I didn't have a long-term plan. But I think the way it's worked out, it's sort of warped into what I suppose you could say is my own genre. If people like my books, they have some idea of what the next one will be like.”
“A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.”
“'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.”

Source : "Emmys 2012: Frances Conroy Finds Life After Death in 'American Horror Story'" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 21, 2012.
“For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.”
“Television has raised writing to a new low.”
“If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.”
“And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz-left two three, right two three-and carve left cheeky and right cheeky, so that like two curtains of blood seemed to pour out at the same time, one on either side of his fat filthy oily snout in the winter starlight.”

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