"I think there's a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don't aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I'm more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Jim Shepard

#Distance Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Clay Quotes

“Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.”
“Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.”
“Even in the losses, I always saw glimpses of something that kept me going.”
“When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.”
“The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.”
“We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered. I think I don't regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.”
“Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense”
“Being on a television show and having so many fans is something that I've never experienced before, and it's really neat when they come up to you and are like, 'That storyline is amazing and really spoke to me in my life,' and it's really cool. I really enjoy it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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