"Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists."

-- Kenneth Goldsmith

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“More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention of Love (his portrait of the poet and scholar A. E. Housman) -- with characters from life and literature. But one cannot always tell the difference between those who are real and those who are imaginary.”
“When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.”
“Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords.”

Source : "Negative images" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.
“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.”

Source : Quoted in Washington Post, 12 Nov. 1967
“[Dirk Gently] just doesn't understand social cues.”
“I wanted to play football or be a boxer, but my dad didn't want that because of all the impact. But in 1992 I was watching short track, and it was obscure, but they looked like superheroes in their tight outfits, and I thought it was amazing. I wanted to do that. I made the national team at 14.”
“The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.”
“Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.”

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