"A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters."

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Source : "What I've Learned: Elmore Leonard" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 16, 2014.

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“A lot of times when I ask people what their apocalyptic fantasy life is like, they'll immediately say something like, "Oh, what I think is going to kill us is climate change or World War IV," and that's not what I'm interested in at all. The point is not about winning a bet about what's going to happen. The point is about the human action of examining the possibility, the kind of obsessive imagining about it.”

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“Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.”
“A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a prize catch-sooner or later he's going to come around.”
“Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.”
“And this - this board was - was impanelled in 1951. And it's gone through ups and downs in how the secretaries have used it. But I have put a premium on that advisory board.”
“The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others”
“I'm God's messenger from the gypsy tent. And it's the message that's important, not the messenger.”
“I don't like to joke about dating.”

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