"You must never check for a person's pulse using your thumb, or you'll feel your own heartbeat. Actually, I plan on doing that if I'm the one who's here when Ruth dies. I plan on giving her my heartbeat before I let her go."

-- Elizabeth Berg

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“Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.”

Source : "PROCESS: Tom Gilroy and Campbell Scott on Acting, Directing and Details, Part I". Interview with Tom Gilroy, www.indiewire.com. December 19, 2001.
“The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.”
“Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'”
“A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.”

Source : Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.134, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Women don't have dicks and they don't want dicks. That amateur psychology crap that women want penises. And they certainly don't want testicles. Because you know no women in her right mind is going to carry around a bag that she can't put stuff in.”
“I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be. Lucky you, lucky me.”

Source : Miller Williams (1997). “The Ways We Touch: Poems”, p.29, University of Illinois Press
“And it is impossible to treat human beings as human beings if you label them, if you term them, if you give them a name as Hindus, Russians, or what you will. It is so much easier to label people, for then you can pass by and kick them, drop a bomb on India or Japan.”
“Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.”

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