"I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation."

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Aleksandar Hemon

#Real Quotes #Long Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“I never thought that I would be labeled something like Generation X because of that movie ( Reality Bites ). I had no idea going into it, and it wasn't a label I could relate to.”
“I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.”
“Drink from the stars and toss your hat over the moon.”
“It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.”
“History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.”
“Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?”
“What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem?”

Source : Michel Serres, Bruno Latour (1995). “Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time”, p.34, University of Michigan Press

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