"Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, wonâ€™t come through."

-- Susan Sontag

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“I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.”
“I know from experience that nobody can give me a tip or a series of tips that will make more money for me than my own judgment.”
“I don't know if I'm going to jail for three weeks, three months, or three years, but I think what I've done to motivate Hongkongers to care about this city, to try to love this country, is still valuable.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.”
“One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.”
“You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading.”
“We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable but we read because we know we're alone. Reading offers a kind of companionship that takes no one's place but that no one can replace either. It offers no definitive explanation of our destiny but links us inextricably to life. Its tiny secret links remind us of how paradoxically happy we are to be alive while illuminating how tragically absurd life is.”
“There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.”

Source : "Joe Eszterhas talks Hollywood smoke screen". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2002.

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