"For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?"

-- Milan Kundera

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“Reality is always controlled by the people who are the most insane.”
“Adulterers, take warning, never admit.”
“I don't believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has not heard them before because I consider it like mass psychosis and genocidal.”
“My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.”
“A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.”
“I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.”
“If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the body of someone you love. Anytime. Anywhere. Without no middleman.”

Source : Theodore Sturgeon (1986). “Godbody”, Dutton Adult
“I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.”

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