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-- William Least Heat-Moon

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“For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.”
“With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman”
“I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.”
“If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.”

Source : "Male Menopause: New Book Argues Midlife Transition Is Just As Hard On Men" By Shelley Emling, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.
“When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.”
“The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As if being a former vampire drone in a werewolf household were not shocking enough, the maid then opened her mouth and proved that she was also, quite reprehensibly, French.”
“Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.”

Source : "K’naan: Straight Outta Mogadishu". Interview with Eamon Kricher-Allen, www.motherjones.com. March 2009.

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