"For every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres."

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Source : Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

Sergei Lukyanenko

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“Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.”
“When I was younger I would have told you it was my genius, but now I don't believe that for a second. Music just comes out of you, it flows through, it's weird. If you think about it intellectually, how does someone come up with two hundred riffs over their life time?”
“We must walk rapidly but not run. We must not be opportunists, nor allow our enthusiasms to make us lose the vision of concrete reality.”
“I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.”
“Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.”
“There came a point when I wanted to do television, and I didn't think the Afro was going to play, so I made a very difficult choice - to straighten my hair.”

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“He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.”
“I think that if there can be considered racism it's to do with the lack of opportunities for writers and producers and the people behind the camera.”

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