"We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen."

-- Paul Auster

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“I think the glue that held 'Fringe' together was the relationships.”
“Anxiety was comfortable to me because it was familiar. If none existed, unconsciously I stirred it up to destroy the unfamiliarity of calm.”
“The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and narrow mind of that tyrannical recluse. They had formed the minds of her people, quenched in blood every spark of rising heresy, and given over a noble nation to a bigotry blind and inexorable as the doom of fate. Linked with pride, ambition, avarice, every passion of a rich, strong nature, potent for good and ill, it made the Spaniard of that day a scourge as dire as ever fell on man.”

Source : Francis Parkman (1927). “The Works of Francis Parkman”
“Build something that fixes something people are having a problem with, and you're lined up for great things.”
“Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.”

Source : "Twenty-two Famous Painters and Illustrators Tell How They Work". Book by Dong Kingman, 1964.
“I took in a breath. "What's the one thing you'd do," I asked. "if you could do anything?" Pass," he said. For a second I was sure I'd heard wrong. "What?" He cleared his throat. "I said, I pass." Why?" He turned his head and looked at me. "Because." Because why?" Because I just do.”
“As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.”
“My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.”

Source : "Voice of the Maghreb" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.

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