"If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside."

-- Mordecai Richler

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“The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.”
“Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences that made life in the U.S. seem rather shallow and superfluous.”
“Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.”
“Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.”
“Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. Follow-up is the answer to a bureaucrat's prayers.”
“The harder I train, the luckier I get”
“Your home needs to be a place where your kids can failâ€”and learn from their failure. Surround them with love, show them how important they are to you, but donâ€™t try to undo their failures. Itâ€™s not our job as parents to get our kids off the hook.”

Source : Kevin Leman (2005). “Making Children Mind without Losing Yours”, p.20, Baker Books
“I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist, but not the songwriter. I had been writing poetry for years, so I sort of had the nature of the words. I felt like no one else could sing my lyrics, so I took a crack at it.”

Source : "Cap the Old Times: The Story of Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. November 29, 2012.

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