"Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey - no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll pr a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you'll always be you."

-- Arnold Arre

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“There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.”
“Wit resembles a coquette; those who the most eagerly run after it are the least favored.”
“A wedding invitation is a gift subpoena.”

Source : "Panel Round Two". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!", www.npr.org. February 16, 2013.
“Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up. Once it's done, fortunately, it doesn't mean there's closure. Change in my work happens not in revolutions - it's more evolutionary.”
“The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down”
“Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?”

Source : "I Write in Brooklyn. Get Over It." by Colson Whitehead, www.nytimes.com. March 2, 2008.
“Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.”
“I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.”

Source : CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. August 13, 2007.

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