"Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all."

-- Anton Chekhov

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“I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many years. It was horrifying to me how the pandemic was raging right here in this country but no one was talking about it.”

Source : "Women Around the World Want a Clean Energy Future" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2010.
“Perfume is the art that makes memory speak”
“It feels much more natural to move forward and grow with the instruments I've grown accustomed to. Piano, accordion, brass, ukulele.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I'm old-fashioned enough to really still believe that the poem is an object to be memorized, venerated... I still believe in that kind of poem. A lot of poets today don't, they want to get away from the poem as object. They want something looser. Unfortunately, a lot of it is boring to me.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed.”
“Eric turned to me, kissed me on the lips very lightly, and looked at my face for a long moment. â€œHeâ€™ll spare you,â€ Eric said, and I understood he wasnâ€™t really talking to me but to himself. â€œYouâ€™re too unique to waste.â€ And then he opened the door.”
“Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle taught us that money should be durable, divisible, consistent, convenient, and value in itself. It should be durable, which is why wheat isn't money; divisible which is why works of art are not money; consistent which is why real estate isn't money; convenient, which is why lead isn't money; value in itself, which is why paper shouldn't be money. Gold answers to all these criteria.”
“The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.”

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