"My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list."

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Leonard Ravenhill

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“Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate.”
“I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.”
“I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet.”

Source : Uwem Akpan (2009). “Say You're One of Them”, Back Bay Books
“I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the universal internally generated coloring of corrollas, furs, shells, carapaces and wings. For man it has been necessary to create both works and tools outside of himself. But it may be that he retains an obscure nostalgia to create them on his own body, to make them a part of it rather than projecting them outwards onto an independent surface, where he is free to retouch them as he sees fit, which is precisely what painting and art are.”
“To me sympathy for a character has little to do with how morally upstanding or wicked they are. All that really matters for me is how human and interesting they are. I happen to be drawn to characters who operate under intense internal pressure, which often comes from some deep psychological conflict.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.”
“The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.”
“People would always say to me, "Why are you wearing such large frames?" And I would say, "The bigger to see you."”

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