"Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible."

-- Leslie Fiedler

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“Get it out of your head that wineâ€™s just a drink. Real wine is like a missing human gene. It vaccinates you against mundanity, against bad life.”

Source : DBC Pierre (2011). “Lights Out in Wonderland: A Novel”, p.74, W. W. Norton & Company
“Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.”
“From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived."”
“For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality”
“There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.”
“I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road.”
“Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.”
“The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts in turn. There are much more intimate relations between the earth and the living organisms which populated it, and it may even be demonstrated that the earth was developed because of them.”

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