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-- Carl Lewis

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“There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.”

Source : Harry Crews (1989). “The knockout artist”, Harpercollins
“Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.”
“Love is when you fry the other person's bacon even if you're a vegetarian.”
“A writer's job is not complete without attention to precision. What you're trying to be precise about is your relationship to the observed thing. And "observed thing" could include remembered thing, fantasized thing, fictionalized thing, recorded thing, trans-altered thing. It's the model that's in front of you or in your brain or your memory or whatever. So you're trying to be precise about what it is you're seeing because it's very unlikely that you're going to be able to depict it as it is.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.”
“If, like Jacob, you trust God in little things, He may answer you by great things.”

Source : John Ross MacDuff (1878). “Eventide at Bethel; or, The night-dream of the desert, an Old Testament chapter (Gen. xxviii) in providence and grace”
“Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. And when we do, one of the things that can happen is that we sacrifice conversation for mere connection. We short-change ourselves. And over time, we seem to forget this, or we seem to stop caring.”
“When I do plays in New York and do eight shows a week, you have the same feeling. Three of them are terrible, four of them are okay and one is really good. It's hard to say what accounts for the really good one or for the terrible ones, but you end up trying to remanufacture whatever worked for the good one, like eating a tomato. I ate a tomato and the show was good, but that of course is not how it works.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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