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“Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.”
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“I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?”
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“I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.”
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“The art isn't there to be purchased - it's there to be enjoyed.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.”
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“Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.”
Source : Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell (2008). “Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell”
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“There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.”
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“How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.”
Source : "Go Forth". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. December 17, 2013.