"The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time."

-- Nathalie Sarraute

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“If Gucci handbags were still in fashion Greenaway would carry his scripts in them.”
“I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”
“I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.”
“They [people of Afghanistan] didn't want Al-Qaeda in their country. They didn't appreciate the Taliban taking control. But they really have an incredible amount of dignity. And by that, they are grateful for America's help in ridding them of the Taliban. The average, ordinary person is glad that their daughter can go to school now. There's no public executions, no banning of soccer games. The difference is, they're appreciative, but they don't want any prolonged military presence of the United States there.”
“Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.”
“It was strange at times. We had to make out so much that we kind of got over it. It was really awkward.”
“I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.”
“Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are.”

Source : "The hard shell" by Richard Johnson, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2006.

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