"It has no meaning, what do you use to write, the only thing that is important is: what do you write. A machine to write a book instead of a writer is not invented yet, and probably will never be."

-- Stanislaw Lem

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“I am still an Indonesian citizen.”
“What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part of my work, but that I'd been home all along.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.”
“Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.”

Source : "Portrait of the Artist: Elaine Paige, Actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2007.
“I dislike The Exorcist, and I found it a warning sign of the dangers in a furious cinematic talent putting the audience through it (a Hitchcock phrase) without purpose, or without the nagging moral anxiety that activated Hitch. You see, I don't think William Friedkin believes in the Devil, or cares about him. I think he found exorcism a pretext for a gross-out and he calculated there was an audience for it, or a crowd ready to be challenged. Maybe I'm too much of an atheist to stand religion being so thrashed.”
“It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.”
“Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.”
“Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.”

Source : Thomas De Quincey, Grevel Lindop (1998). “The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: And Other Writings”, p.103, Oxford Paperbacks

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