"The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books,"

-- Shirley Jackson

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“For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.”
“I've been studying the Constitution for myself but also as a way for me, as a Democrat, to comprehend the Right. I think it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.”

Source : "Vegetarian diet is better for the planet, says Lord Stern" by David Batty and David Adam, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2009.
“I try not to look for messages in films.”
“tht's why u mst never forget ma sister jodie”
“All has gone to rest, and I don't know whether I'm alive or will live or whether I'm rushing like this through the world for I'm not longer weeping or laughing”
“Between the probable and proved there yawns A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd, Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse, Our very standpoint crumbling. Desperate dawns Our only hope: to leap into the Word That opens up the shuttered universe.”
“To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.”
“Act first, explain later.”

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