"There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters."

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Source : "A Clockwork Orange".

Anthony Burgess

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“And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.”
“The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
“I will look through 200 photographs of Kate Moss and there will be just one that I connect with for some reason, maybe because of the composition or something in the eye... Something touches me and I know I have to paint it, in the way a child knows it wants something.”

Source : "Stars in her eyes". Hermione Eyre, The Independent on Sunday, July 15, 2007.
“A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul.”
“The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it is the place where images and words find and lose their conscience, their aesthetic and ethical identity.”
“I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh.”
“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”
“On days when I do not work, I am working on my image.”

Source : "£1,000 a day for Linda Evangelista? Because she's worth it" by Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. August 04, 2011.

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