"Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life."

-- Rick Moody

“I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.”
“You cannot, for instance, sustainably protect the environment if the majority of the people are still in primitive agriculture leading to the encroachment of forest reserves.”

Source : "Listen to the Young, Says Queen". news.bbc.co.uk. November 23, 2007.
“A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.”
“If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.”
“Don't look back, because that's the sign of failure.”

Source : "METALLICA's JAMES HETFIELD: 'People Always Complain About Something'". Interview with Fish Griwkowsky, www.blabbermouth.net. December 8, 2008.
“I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.”
“The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.”
“When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don't like it you can change it.”

Source : "Tony Benn: His views on socialism, Europe, war and writing", www.bbc.co.uk. March 14, 2014.

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