"My father thought a novel was a broken short story. There's something to that. Many of my favorite novels are novellas. The authors of brief things must reckon with the precision of language."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

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“If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.”
“I choose to express myself.”
“The alleged Hitlerite gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews constitute one and the same historical lie, which made possible a gigantic financial-political fraud, the principal beneficiaries of which are the State of Israel and international Zionism, and whose principal victims are the German people - but not their leaders - and the entire Palestinian people.”
“I was born with success. Lucky for me, I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it.”
“I'd like to think my performance is today. I never try to - it's so, as you know, watching me, I have a beginning, middle and ending. But every night the show changes and I relate to an audience and I relate to the young people.”
“That ship is loaded with treasure, but there's a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction.”
“Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.”

Source : Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.175, Macmillan
“What is a career, actually? Nobody can destroy my career. Only I can destroy my career, if I am a bad conductor. I've gone to lesser known orchestras in Scotland and Sweden, Detroit, but I have enjoyed the places I've been, and had success. I like the close community relations, and to solve problems.”

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