"We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again."

-- Hippolyte Taine

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“To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.”

Source : "My California: Journeys by Great Writers". Book edited by Donna Wares, 1999.
“Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.”
“Hear me out. Would you eat a hamburger if there was any chance it could punch you in the face? - How is a hamburger supposed to punch me in the face? Just say that it can. Would you bother? Or would you eat something else?”
“I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.”
“If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.”
“The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.”

Source : Walker Percy (2011). “Lancelot”, p.46, Open Road Media
“I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.”
“You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.”

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