"memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit."

-- Harriet Doerr

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“Every true artist is at war with the world.”
“Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.”
“Until now the theory of infinite series in general has been very badly grounded. One applies all the operations to infinite series as if they were finite; but is that permissible? I think not. Where is it demonstrated that one obtains the differential of an infinite series by taking the differential of each term? Nothing is easier than to give instances where this is not so.”
“There is nothing new... everything has roots in the past.”
“You don't buy a Harley with your mind, you buy it with your heart and your balls.”
“I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.”
“I wanted to be involved with the making of some kind of parallel world. I thought, there's no reason to go to different parts of our world, because you can write them. You can stay home, stay in a little room, and imagine all these worlds. And I wanted to do that. Why did I want to do that, I'm not sure if I can tell.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com

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