"Don't love anything that can be taken away."

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Source : Ron Rash (2009). “Serena”, p.51, Canongate Books

Ron Rash

“I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down.”
“I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy.”
“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.”

Source : "I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away". Book by Bill Bryson, June 6, 2000.
“[Martin] Scorsese says one of the great things he loves about it is how Mark can't get the right shot and he's killing people because he can't get the right shot. It's an example of what film-makers are like.”

Source : Source: www.fluxmagazine.com
“Frivolous thinking is due to foreign thought. Japan must no longer let the impudence of the white peoples go unpunished. It is the duty of Japan to fulfill her natural destiny, to cause China to respect the Japanese, to expel Chinese influence from Manchuria, and to follow the way of imperial destiny.”

Source : "World War II almanac" by Robert Goralski (p. 9), 1981.
“That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my houseâ€¦.Took three months before I even looked out the window, see the world still there. I was surprised to see the world didnâ€™t stop.”
“If you live for fame, men may turn against you.”

Source : Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”
“Do you seriously envision St. Paul or Calvin or Luther opening bottles of Welch's Grape Juice in the sacristy before the service? Luther at least would turn over in his grave.”

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