"No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel."

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Source : Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

Clarice Lispector

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“I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out.”
“Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction”

Source : Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.25, Profile Books
“I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.”

Source : "Exclusive: Chris Noth Opens Up About Playing Mr. Big On Sex and the City, His New Life On The Good Wife, and the Crusade He's On to End Hunger!". Interview with Lauren Brown, www.glamour.com. October 8, 2012.
“They [investment bankers] don't even want the stuff that they've got, you know the fancy cars and houses. Their consumption is basically just a keeping up with the Joneses or let's buy the markers of success because this is what I'm supposed to have and this is what I'm supposed to do. And they are working so hard that they don't even have the time to think about what they might actually desire.”
“Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness.”
“When you're younger, you don't believe in it, but it's really so important to stay out the of sun as much as you can. Like if you wanna get tan, you can get a spray tan and not get skin cancer.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.”
“All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.”

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