"Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind."

-- Irvin D. Yalom

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“I didnâ€™t break his jaw, but if he lays a hand on you, it will be the first of many things to break,â€ Patch said.”
“And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.”
“I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.”

Source : "Being Black and "Difficult" in Hollywood". Interview with Ishmael Reed, www.counterpunch.org. September 24, 2010.
“Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.”
“Those who give up cannot gain victory.”
“As a doctor I had no choice. As a philosopher I had too many.”
“It's important to me that the reader goes on a ride with the characters, that you set context enough to know, "Okay, here's where we are in the world. Now we're just going to go inside this person's head, this guy's heart, this woman's ambitions and take it down to very, very small scale."”
“I wish I could be invisible and just play music and not have to worry about anyone looking at me.”

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