"I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

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“A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?”
“I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.”
“Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman.”

Source : Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 11, 2009.
“I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.”
“For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do I make this film. That's part of the pleasure and that's why I'm not a normal professional director.”
“The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desiresâ€”the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.”

Source : Derek Lin (2006). “Tao Te Ching”, p.40, SkyLight Paths Publishing
“Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.”
“Almost everything I do is related to being fat.”

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