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Peter Marino

"After the motorcycle trips I take for one or two weeks, I have trouble getting back into a car, because I feel claustrophobic with all of that metal around me, and I can't see anything. I feel seriously dangerous in a car after riding on a bike, because your field of vision is so closed in. And then I think about all these little bourgeois people driving around in their cars - it's actually hideous. It cramps you on the head, it cramps you on the side, it puts you in a box on wheels... It's a terrible experience. Motorcycles are about opening the field of vision."

-- Peter Marino

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“When I was backstage at Comic-Con, about to go out and do the panel for Thor, and Joss Whedon ran up and introduced himself, I already almost passed out, right then. And then, he said, "I've been meaning to call you. You have a big part in The Avengers. Can we introduce you as part of the cast?" It was pretty Make-A-Wish Foundation. I was pretty sure I was dying and nobody had told me yet.”
“Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order the past...What's more truly frightening is the defacement, the mutilation, and ultimately the eradication of history in order to create... an order that is favorable to the United States.”
“According to the United Nations' latest count, of the approximately 3,000 languages spoken in the world today, only some 78 have a literature. Of those 78, a scant five or six enjoy a truly international audience.”
“Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.”
“Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.”
“In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will. As a writer it puts one at a distinct advantage.”

Source : "A life in books: Penelope Lively". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2009.
“I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents.”
“"Le gÃ©nie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le gÃ©nie, c'est l'impatience dans les idÃ©es et la patience dans les faits : une imagination vive et un jugement calme; quelque chose comme un liquide en Ã©bullition dans un vase qui reste toujours froid. "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.”

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