"Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing."

-- Sergei Dovlatov

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“I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church. The ugliest things in this beautiful country of America are religious bigotry and racism.”
“Photography is about being patient. I'm quiet, I watch the situation. I let things happen and photograph them when they happen; that's my approach, although trying to anticipate events at a party with lots of people is hard.”
“Always surround yourself with people who are better than you. If you're hanging around bad people, they're going to start bringing you down . . . But, if you surround yourself with good people, they're going to be pulling you up.”

Source : "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.
“We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.”
“I've always wanted to do a space movie.”
“I frowned at the list. â€œSoâ€¦ Iâ€™ll go back and tell the Traynors that Iâ€™m going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympicsâ€””
“The last guy tried to get out of me writing him a ticket by saying, 'Kiss me, big boy, kiss me like there's no tomorrow!'...as I recall, I didn't write that ticket.”
“I believe in spiritual technology.”

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