"I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very traditional historical novel to go in with the expectation that this is going to deliver the same kind of reading experience. I think what's contemporary about my book has something to do with how condensed things are."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Danielle Dutton

#Reading Quotes #Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.”
“One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible.”
“You're a psychopath." "I prefer creative.”
“My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.”
“Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved”
“Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris ? It's not known, it's never been tried.”

Source : "French Jokes Gain Wide Audiences" by Sharon Kehnemui, www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2003.
“It's almost two societies, the living and the dead, and you live with them both.”

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