"Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language."

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Source : Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1996). “This Earth of Mankind”, Penguin Books

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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“I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to - growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed.”
“I know I repeat myself in all my movies, but I just let it go, let it happen. Clearly, I'm not finished with that issue. But they seem to me like completely different movies. They're definitely coming from me.”
“Like bookends, we have learned to support each other when the stuff in the middle pushes us apart.”

Source : Liane Holliday Willey (2014). “Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) Expanded Edition”, p.96, Jessica Kingsley Publishers
“I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.”
“The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright.”

Source : Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.286, Open Road Media
“No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.”

Source : Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.”
“I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that.”

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