"Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end by falsifying and fictionalizingâ€”Iâ€™m a liar, in fact. That means Iâ€™m a novelist, after all. I write about what I know."

-- Alberto Moravia

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“It's very important to approach pedophiles and pedosexuals and offer them therapy. It's been my experience that you can reach your objective with what I would call kind-hearted, informed and enlightened patients - in the sense that they don't lose their desire, but that they no longer have physical contact with children. That would be the goal.”
“I've always gotten along best with artists.”
“Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength.”

Source : David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.320, Dial Press
“The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.”
“It was a testament to the resilience of humanity. Give a man a tree and he will make it into a boat; give him a leaf and he will curve it into a cup and drink water from it; give him a rock and he will make a weapon to protect himself and his family. Give a man a small box and a limit of 140 characters to type into it, and he will adapt it to fight an oppressive dictatorship in the Middle East.”
“The end of pain we take as happiness.”

Source : Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text
“Can you expect to go to heaven for nothing? Did not our Savior track the whole way to it with His tears and blood? And yet you stop at every little pain.”
“I love berries. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, black berries, anything with an 'errie' in it!”

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