"Writing is fifty years behind painting."

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Source : Brion Gysin (2015). “Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader”, p.131, Wesleyan University Press

Brion Gysin

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“What I love about Coulson is that he manages to do that and he manages to wrangle the diva superheroes, and really keep a sense of humor about it. And, you can tell that he really loves his job.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“By being a racing driver you are under risk all the time. By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win. And the main motivation to all of us is to compete for victory, it's not to come 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th. I race to win as long as I feel it's possible. Sometimes you get it wrong? Sure, it's impossible to get it right all the time. But I race designed to win, as long as I feel I'm doing it right,”
“I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.”
“If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.”
“But Vegas is really my first home.”
“Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews.”

Source : "Jackson Told To Apologize for "Anti-Semitic Rant" by wenn.com, November 25, 2005.
“Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood,don't write fiction.”
“Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.”

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