"Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend."

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Neil Simon

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“By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.”

Source : Steve Erickson (2013). “Rubicon Beach: A Novel”, p.77, Open Road Media
“Listen, I'm not afraid of anything. I'm Colombian.”
“I've always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago.”
“Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.”
“Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your enemies nibble you to death.”
“It's like losing a son because I loved Michael and Michael loved me. But you know, as when people grow up and they make their own decisions and they move forward, there's a distance, and I think that Michael in some cases might have gone too far with some of the things he was doing.”

Source : "Motown's Gordy On Michael Jackson". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 27, 2009.
“There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.”

Source : Isaac Barrow (1839). “The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author”, p.145
“The music and the message, to me, is something that is imperative and that's what drives me know.”

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