"I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children."

-- Colson Whitehead

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“Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.”
“There's nobody who loves being around actors working more than David Mamet, especially actors bringing his tremendous dialogue to life. I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave.”

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“I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.”
“I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?”
“Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like a notebook.”
“The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.”
“That is the dignity of America, the reason she exists, the condition of her survival, yes, the ultimate test of her greatness: to respect every human person, especially the weak and most defenseless ones, those as yet unborn.”
“I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.”

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