"You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave."

-- Tom Shadyac

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“In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we'll just never know. What the first song sounded like. How it felt to see the first photograph. Who kissed the first kiss, and if it was any good.”
“If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?”
“If we don't go forward, we won't find anything.”
“If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed”
“Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.”
“For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press
“I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.”

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