"When a new book is published, read an old one."

-- Samuel Rogers

“I love my films. I have stacks and stacks of DVDs. I put 'Last of the Mohicans' on the other day with Daniel Day-Lewis. It hurts me to say it because he's a Millwall fan, but I think he's fantastic.”

Source : "Alvin Martin: 'Scousers and cockneys get on. It's the mickey-taking'". Interview with Jacob Steinberg, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2011.
“If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.”
“To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray are the things that make men happy.”
“Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.”
“I think people like feeling miserable just as much as they like feeling happy.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.
“A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.”
“He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. To be near him, to hear him talk as he did talk, and to feel that he thought me worthy to be so spoken to - capable of understanding and duly appreciating such discourse - was enough.”
“If there is a panacea, or cure-all to life, it is self love.”

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