"My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern for me, as for many people, but it's nowhere near as central to the culture as it used to be."

-- Matthew Specktor

#People Quotes #Culture Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.”
“The actual assertion that the Census Bureau could behave in such a way as to tilt things one way or the other way in the partisan sense, is, on the face of it, a silly charge. It's the same Census Bureau that's considered to be incompetent by some people, and then some of the same people are saying that this incompetent agency is so clever and so Machiavellian that it can design a census for partisan reasons.”

Source : "Census, Uncensored". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. June 26, 2009.
“Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.”
“I'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him in a big European match at Old Trafford.”
“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
“From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.”
“I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?”
“The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.”

Source : Attributed in "The Routledge dictionary of quotations" edited by Robert Andrews, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, (p. 209), 1987.

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