"Deux me'Â tresou un peu plusseÂ parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman."

-- Alain Robbe-Grillet

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“The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as outlaws, and those of us who are specially well brought up shoot them for fun.”

Source : Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.28, 1st World Publishing
“If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.”
“It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.”
“When I was in the second grade, one of my teachers said, "Where are you going to find a husband? How are you going to find someone darker than you?" I was mortified. I remember seeing a commercial where a woman goes for an interview and doesn't get the job. Then she puts a cream on her face to lighten her skin, and she gets the job! This is the message: that dark skin is unacceptable. I definitely wasn't hearing this from my immediate family - my mother never said anything to that effect - but the voices from the television are usually much louder than the voices of your parents.”
“I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me, I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.”
“I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.”
“Its easier to get a divorce than pass the driving test. Now its just a basic form-filling exercise.”
“As human beings in general ... I don't think we've grown that much. Technology wise, we are getting too intelligent for our own good.”

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