"I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily."

-- Amy Hempel

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“It is the great business of every Christian to save souls.”
“Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! what store of riches it imparts!”
“The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we're going to continue to evolve.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“To become an Architect in the right sense of the word means that a man shall give his life to it and nothing else, and shall study the work he has to do with enthusiastic interest in every detail pertaining to it, and content himself with nothing less than complete success.”
“The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.”
“I certainly like the actor to have as much lee-way as possible. In the same way that director Bong was generous enough to let me create, you have to do that for actors, as well, and let them use the tools they have, and part of that is their own brains and their own words.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.”
“I say this as the president of the country which has suffered more deaths, more blood and more sacrifices in this war”

Source : "Guatemalan President Praises Colorado and Washington for Marijuana Legalization at UN Speech" By Daniel Robelo, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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