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“What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go on living, most of the time. But this not knowing is precisely what I want to preserve. As readers, the closest way we can engage with a literary work is to protect its indeterminacy; to return ourselves and it to a place that precludes complete recognition. Really, when I’m reading, all I want is to stand amazed in front of an unknown object at odds with the world.”
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“You dont have to eat a whole cheeseburger, just take a piece of the cheeseburger.”
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“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born”
Source : "Selections from the Prison Notebooks". Book by Antonio Gramsci, pp. 275-276, 1971.
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“Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.”
Source : Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.45, Da Capo Press
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“When sunlight falls on a crystal, lights of all colors of the rainbow appear; yet they have no substance that you can grasp. Likewise, all thoughts in their infinite variety are utterly without substance.”
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“We could do it, you know." "What?" "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.”
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“You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.”
Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.
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“Focus on the victory instead of on everything that could go wrong.”