"I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough confidence in my talent to think that I should be just doing that. Publishing seemed like fun to me - to be involved with writers. And it did turn out to be. I thought I'd try it, and I'm still trying it, 40 years later."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Jonathan W. Galassi

#Fun Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?”
“I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar.”
“I have no detectable hair style.”
“I look much more civilized than I actually am.”

Source : "Georgina Chapman Interview: Red-Carpet Royalty" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 21, 2011.
“I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative arts, folklore, advertising, voices making announcements, aerodynamism, boy scouts, the smell of moth balls, events of the moment, and drunken people.”
“Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.”
“Really, it's only been since the '70s that Canadians have had any pride in their country.”

Source : Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. October 14, 1998.
“My life failed on the very day I was born.”

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