"It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West."

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Source : Wallace Earle Stegner (1987). “The American West as Living Space”, p.22, University of Michigan Press

Wallace Stegner

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“People call me a nerd because I like to spend time on the computer.”
“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.”
“It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.”
“I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.”

Source : Source: dailydead.com
“The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.
“Making photos is helpful of course to master the craft. To get comfortable with the camera. Learn what a camera can do and how to use the camera successfully. Doing exercises for example if you try to find out things that the camera can do that the eye cannot do. So that you have a tool that will do what you need to be done. But then once you have mastered the craft the most important thing is to determine why you want to shoot pictures and what you want to shoot pictures of. That's where the thematic issue comes to life.”
“The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In the midst of life he calls us and summons us to him.”

Source : Sadegh Hedayat (2010). “The Blind Owl”, p.56, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Keep in mind that God's sovereignty allows Him to even use that which is not cooperating with Him (the bad) in order to move things to where He wants them to go.”

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