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Joseph Heller

"Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all. I'm cold,' Snowden said. 'I'm cold."

-- Joseph Heller

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“Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.”
“Pulque - lightning nectar for the Gods.”
“Go to work and be a Hollywood stud, drive your four wheel drive right into the mud.”
“All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.”

Source : "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Essay by James F. Cooper, 1838.
“In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration:â€”feelings, too, Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love....”
“We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.”

Source : Interview with John Tusa, anishkapoor.com.
“As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.”
“The MagiciansÂ brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking whatâ€™s simple on the surface and turning it over to show us the complicated writhing mess beneath. Itâ€™s like seeing the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter through a 3-D magnifying glass.”

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