"There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience."

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Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.97, New York Review of Books

Renata Adler

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“My work is one of my passions, so I want to treat it with great importance, whatever the project or role. As any motorcycle enthusiast can probably attest to, getting your motorcycle looking and riding the best certainly holds a high rating of importance. And if I don't finish the Lego city with my son, then I meet the wrath of an extremely assertive four-year-old project manager.”

Source : "Danielle Cormack: What Love, Laughter and Legos Have to Do with Everything". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Every day theres something new. Something's going to destroy us all. Then it disappears.”
“The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.”

Source : "Europe sets the rules on booze" by Nigel Farage, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2009.
“The thing is, we [celebrities are] all just people living our lives, doing our thing. But, I honestly tend to live in my own little world, and am blissfully unaware of so much.”
“I think my work is very difficult to understand. Sometimes people do and sometimes they don't. I can't do much about that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.”
“If My New Album Isn't Out in 2014, Something is Seriously Wrong!”
“It is only alone, truly alone that one bursts apart, springs forth.”

Source : Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, Maria Velho da Costa (1975). “The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters”, p.347

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