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“I don't believe that murders can be "solved." I think that this is the big lie of the mystery novel, that you should close the book and feel that the world is back in order and everything's all right. I want the reader to know that the world is not all right, and maybe we ought to do something about it.”
Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.
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“I love getting dressed up.”
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“William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending toward him. When he reached the bottom, his father walked over, looked him in the eye and said: “You know those poems you're writing? They're no good.—
Source : Eliot Weinberger (2007). “An Elemental Thing”, p.115, New Directions Publishing
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“You speak bad of me, I score goals.”
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“It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.”
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“I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth.”
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“One, two, ... five!" "Three, my lord.”
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“The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.