"The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective."

-- Manuel Puig

#Intellectual Quotes #Novelists Quotes #Patterns Quotes

“Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany.”
“What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.”
“A nothing we were, are, shall remain, flowering: the nothing--, the no one's rose.”

Source : Paul Celan (1972). “Selected poems”, Penguin Books Ltd
“I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.”
“I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part.”
“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”
“There are two unknowns in the World. The Poles and the Turks!”
“You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not do at all”

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