"To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it."

-- Italo Calvino

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“This is still true with auditions - you have to forget about them immediately. You have to put them out of your head, otherwise you're going to drive yourself crazy.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.”
“It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.”
“None of us have much idea where we are. Perhaps all our lives are too concerned with where, and not enough with who.”

Source : Catherine Fisher (2011). “Incarceron”, p.314, Penguin
“When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.”
“I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for”
“The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you.”

Source : Mark Goulston (2015). “Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone”, p.63, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
“I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.”

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