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“For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in.”
Source : "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000. 
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“Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what Buddhists would call my true nature, what Jews call the still, small voice, what Christians call the holy spirit.”
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“One only really loves from a feminine position.”
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“Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'”
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“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.”
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“A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.”
Source : Maurice Blanchot, P. Adams Sitney (1981). “The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays”, Barrytown, N.Y. ; Station Hill Press
