"A lot of people consider my books to be straightforward, but I think that I write from atmosphere to atmosphere rather than from event to event."

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Oscar Hijuelos

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“On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation.”
“We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and ***** has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.”
“What is dance? I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.”
“Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.”
“I haven't figured out how to do anything yet besides recording music - I don't even entirely know how to do that. My favorite phrase is "It takes a lot of imagination to have no talent." So it's a struggle because I struggle between thinking about whether or not I'm actually a musician, am I actually an artist. Does it matter what I'm doing? Should I just go and jump off a bridge? Thinking about the social hierarchy and the fact that I'm American, and how I don't identify with being American, nor do I identify with any nationality or my race.”
“This coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall and Europe coming closer together, and nightlife and techno and ecstasy culture seemed like a very powerful panEuropean movement.”
“If God is a crutch, then atheism is a coma.”
“Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.”

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