"I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!"

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Alexander Chee

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“We are living in a world that is in the late stage of a Caterpillar. It is very important to let go of the old and start to gravitate to the new because we are leaving behind a world that is no longer sustainable and moving into a world in which we can thrive.”

Source : "Risky business" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.
“It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!”

Source : Eugene O'Neill, Harold Bloom (2009). “Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night”, p.79, Infobase Publishing
“Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.”
“Perhaps my number one rule is: Don't try to make a profit on a bad trade, just try to find the best place to get out.”
“But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months advance over the eye...(but) what do we do in our society, in our civilisation, to continue this process?”
“It isn't enough to love; we must prove it.”
“All the major social movements of the 20th century had great soundtracks - We need that. The left needs better propaganda, because we donâ€™t have the Koch brothers. It takes a different kind of capital to fight that stuff.”
“True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.”

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