"Only America makes you feel that everybody wants to be like you. That's what success is: Everybody wants to be like you."

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Ornette Coleman

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“It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.”
“When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.”
“If you were to ask my agent, they would confirm this: I'm drawn to locations. What really drew me to 'The 4400,' aside from the fact that it was sci-fi, was the fact that it was shot in the city of my dreams: Vancouver.”

Source : Interview with Veronica Hsieh, www.amc.com.
“The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone.”
“The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.”
“It had been a perfect nap - the sort a man runs into now and again by chance.”

Source : Charles Finch (2007). “A Beautiful Blue Death”, p.62, Macmillan
“Try writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration.”
“A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.”

Source : "Fictional character: Jiminy Cricket". "Pinocchio", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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