"Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones."

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Jane Smiley

#Avid Quotes #Names Quotes #Poetry Quotes

“I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.”
“Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of being.”
“So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!”
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera.”
“Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.”
“It's cold water in the face to realize you're not nearly as special and as unusual as you might have thought when you were an alienated teenager.”

Source : Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.
“In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one”
“Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. Which disease? The disease of love.”

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