"When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'"

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Source : "Q&A with Puffball director Nicolas Roeg". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2008.

Nicolas Roeg

#Book Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Men Quotes

“I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion of some interesting text, usually, but not always, philosophical.”
“A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.”
“I dare anyone to debate me on things.”
“Be who you are in every situation.”
“In history people dressed much better than we do today.”
“What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?”

Source : Brenda Shaughnessy (2012). “Our Andromeda”, p.8, Copper Canyon Press
“In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.”
“I lead a very boring life.”

Source : "'All those lines about how fabulous you are... it's rubbish'". Interview with Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2001.

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