"Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives."

-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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“I love '80s happy music. I love Cyndi Lauper and Madonna, and the idea of making music that's about people celebrating fun. I spent my late adolescence in New York and I used to go to a lot of gay clubs. The music there was always just about love and connection and celebrating life. I think, for people going through something really hard, to go to a place where you can let loose and listen to music as a distraction, that's about a better place, a better way of life - that's where all the attraction lies.”

Source : "Halsey: I lost a sense of who I was". Interview with Mark Savage, www.bbc.com. June 27, 2017.
“The question is: What can we, as citizens, do to reform our tax system? As you know, under our three-branch system of government, the tax laws are created by: Satan. But he works through the Congress, so that's where we must focus our efforts.”
“Women critics are amazons in climax.”
“I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.”
“Comedy is very important, yes. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.”
“Jack Nicklaus is a legend in his spare time.”
“The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.”
“Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the . that squares with the facts, and with the historical record”

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