"Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings."

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Hal Duncan

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“Memories seem to surface in no particular order, with no time attached. Yesterday can seem as distant as last year. My life now consists of fragments where some are so blinding in their intensity that they make everything else indistinguishable. It feels as if my existence was extinguished in a flash, and afterwards my universe became incomprehensible. I want to remember everything. But perhaps I need to give it more time. Allow myself some rest. Distance myself a little, to see if I can make out a pattern. And face the truth about what is really there.”
“If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.”

Source : "Larry Clark’s Americ". Interview with Owen Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2016.
“My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.”
“A good song has to have a great melody, and the lyrics have to touch my heart. Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.”

Source : "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.
“For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.”
“I'm the curvy one of the family.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.”
“One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.”

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