"I recreate myself; that is my only power."

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Source : "The Shape" by Dejan Stojanovic, Gramatik, Podgorica, "The Shape and a Smile", (p. 10), 2000.

Dejan Stojanovic

“It doesn't pay to try, all the smart girls know why.”
“I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.”
“In moments when I question if I should be having kids, I think of all those phone calls from my sister-in-law, in which, 3,000 miles away, I hear my nephews screaming for her attention. I tell her I have to go because I am packing to leave for Europe, and her tone flatlines: 'That must be nice.'”
“I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a 'fairy tale,' but I really loved 'Mulan,' the Disney film. It was my favorite. I guess it's not really a fairy tale, but you do get Eddie Murphy as a dragon.”

Source : "Talking About Fairy Tales with Lily Cole". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. May 30, 2012.
“People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.”
“I'm more confident in my music now because people are saying it's good - I'm trying to believe it, but it's very difficult. I don't know if it's going to end in disaster.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I'm the oldest son of a crazy man, I'm in a cowboy band.”
“My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.”

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