"I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“People are going to think what they want to think. I let them. You canâ€™t control perception. Itâ€™s a losing game so I donâ€™t play. I let them lose; lose themselves in their own fantasies of what they want me to be. A rebel, an angel, a romantic, a heart breaker, a boy, a man. Perhaps I am all of those things. Perhaps Iâ€™m none. But what I am is for me to find out, not to be dictated to me. Itâ€™s for me to know.”
“In love, we are best pleased when we please others.”
“I loathe, I hate, chick flicks.”
“The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion - that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change. To many, the solution seems simple enough: such a change being impossible, the art of the novel is dying.”

Source : Alain Robbe-Grillet, Richard Howard (1989). “For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction”, p.17, Northwestern University Press
“You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way”
“Different parents have different standards for their children.”

Source : "Interview with Penelope Spheeris" by Pablo Kjolseth, www.moviehabit.com. January 31, 2001.
“When I'm on a location, I pick a restaurant that's close and private and eat all my meals there.”
“I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast he wouldn't eat, and walked away. And as he did, I thought again of those mornings in the hallway at school, way back in ninth grade. Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could be one thing or another, with all the things that you were once so sure of suddenly not familiar, if they were even recognizable at all.”

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