"Stories heard but not recalled. Letters too. Words filling my head. Fragmenting like artillery shells. Shrapnel, like syllables, flying everywhere. Terrible syllables. Sharp cracked. Traveling at murderous speed. Tearing through it all in a very, very bad inreparable way."

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Source : Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

Mark Z. Danielewski

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“Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end.”
“I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.”
“All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. The man strongly possessed of an idea is the master of all who are uncertain or wavering. Clear, deep, living convictions rule the world.”

Source : James Freeman Clarke (1875). “Common-sense in Religion: A Series of Essays”, p.339
“An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.”
“You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing.”
“It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.”
“The 20th century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also bears responsibility in that regard. I believe that we have to look at our own history with humility and think about our responsibility.”

Source : "U.S. 'only indispensable alliance'". Interview with Lally Weymouth, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 23, 2007.
“I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.”

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