"What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older."

-- Russell Banks

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“School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.”
“Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.”
“I like actors who just are who they are, with a little bit of qualification to adapt to their character. But mostly they just use their own personality to embody the character.”
“What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?”
“It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain, instantly recallable in every detail, for all of his life. There was no telling what made these moments different from any other, though he knew them when they came. He had seen sights more gruesome and more beautiful by far, and been left with no more than a fleeting muddle of their memory. But these-- the still moments, as he called them to himself-- they came with no warning, to print a random image of the most common things inside his brain, indelible.”
“The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.”

Source : Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.257, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“At any moment, you know, your manufactured cool could blow.”

Source : Nicole Blackman (2002). “Blood Sugar”, Akashic Books
“Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.”

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