"I get up between 6:30 and 8 am. I used to make a cup of coffee first thing, but now I have warm water with a bit of lemon juice in it. I've cut down on things as I was getting fat."

-- Melvin Burgess

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“A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.”
“Anyone who thinks Ryanair flights are some sort of bastion of sanctity where you can contemplate your navel is wrong. We already bombard you with as many in-flight announcements and trolleys as we can.”
“Perhaps profit isn't everything, but nothing works without profit. Profit is the basis for independent journalism.”
“I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.”
“Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.”
“Don't give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.”
“Ive been on one TV series after another. None of the network decisions have ever made sense to me.”
“You have got to goad yourself toward a becoming that is in accordance with what you are innate. You have got to sometimes become the medicine you want to take. You have got to, you have absolutely got to put your face into the gash and sniff, and lick. You have got to learn to get sick. You have got to reestablish the integrity of your emotions so that their violence can become a health and so that you can keep on becoming. There is no sacrifice. You have got to want to live. You have got to force yourself to want to.”

Source : "Mofo 2016: the avant-garde comes to Hobart for a Gatsby-style party" by Monica Tan, Melissa Davey, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2016.

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