"There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life."

-- Laura Lippman

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“Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.”
“The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. Heâ€™s about double the numbers now. Can you imagine if McCain had won and did precisely what Obama has done, with every speech and every political maneuver overseas? Thereâ€™d be riots in the streets about the people weâ€™re killing. And yet because itâ€™s Obama, and heâ€™s better looking and better at reading the teleprompter, we let him get away with it.”
“I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.”
“I always could hit, but fielding I had to work at. I took as much pride in fielding as hitting. I became a complete ballplayer. I knew when to take the extra base. I knew about the outfielder hitting the cutoff man. I knew when and how to bunt. I knew when to hit-and-run.”
“When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.”
“The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind whom he wants to entertain, and what he wants to advertise.”

Source : Claud Cockburn (1967). “I, Claud ...: the autobiography of Claud Cockburn”
“I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.”
“Turkey was fantastic, Turkey was like mystical and such a special place. Just unique, something that's really hard to describe, such beauty, those mountains and the stone is kind of, eroded? Special erosion which makes what you see just something that seems, it's been made for a movie, it's like something out of fantasy except it's real.”

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