"Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music of the words is where the meanings begin....Writing as a lesser form of dance."

-- Paul Auster

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“Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.”
“It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a seduction, a prayer, a summoning, an incantation murmured under the breath as the torchlights sink lower and the forest looms taller and the wolves howl louder and the fire prepares for its submission to the encroaching dark.”
“Few love to hear the sins they love to act.”
“I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.”
“My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.”

Source : Margot Asquith (1963). “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith: Vol. two”
“I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.”
“It's always about a character that I become obsessed with and who refuses to leave me alone.”
“'These boat people,' says the government of Hong Kong, 'they all want to go to America.' Well, I swear I don't know why, do you? I mean, take Vietnam. Why would any Vietnamese come to America after what American did to Vietnam? Don't they remember My Lai, napalm, Sylvester Stallone?”

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