"The movie of my life must be really low budget."

-- Jim Butcher

“I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.”
“Abraham Lincoln would have been happy to have solved the slavery problem by compensation - in fact, drew up a gradual, compensated emancipation plan as early as November, 1861 - but no slaveholders were willing to go along with it.”
“I photograph Nature, which includes human beings.”
“I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.”
“Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.”
“On speaking: first, have something to say; second, say it; third, stop when you have said it; and finally give it an accurate title.”
“The crew, the actors and the writers all work the same way. We always want to do the best job.”
“To do magic, to do great magic, he has to know himself as a piece of the universe.A piece of the universe?A little piece that has all the rest of it in it. Everything outside of him is also inside of him.”

Source : Peter Straub (2015). “Shadowland”, p.53, Penguin

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