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“See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality,--that comes with a pruning-knife, and cuts off all sproutings, all wild luxuriances; but religion lays the axe to the root of the tree. Morality looks that the skin of the apple be fair; but religion searcheth to the very core.”
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“We all make mistakes. Luckily for us, there are very few mistakes that cant be solved with a suitable application of either lipstick or hand grenades" - Frances Brown”
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“With radio, the listener absorbs everything.”
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“I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.”
Source : "James Salter, The Art of Fiction No. 133". Interview with Edward Hirsch, www.theparisreview.org. 1993. 
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“The most terrifying thing is sometimes not what we see, but rather what we are forced to imagine.”
Source : Félix J. Palma (2012). “The Map of the Sky: A Novel”, p.294, Simon and Schuster
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“In a mystical sense, three can become one, in the sense that two is not one; three is a way of resolving difference between two. It's about creating balance: of energies, of dispositions. Sonic balance. That's the approach for me, what it means.”
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“Looking at the sky last night and the moon in the first fresh dark, just a few stars, bright with their cold flares, I had a little crumpled thought, 'Oh well, the moon. It's just another place like California.' One's imagination drags its feet as we are inexorably hauled into the future.”
Source : James Schuyler, Nathan Kernan (1997). “The diary of James Schuyler”, Black Sparrow Pr
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“You've got to believe in yourself, you've got to have a very clear vision, and you've got have the fire in the belly and go out and not be shy with working because it takes a lot of work.”
