"Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes."

-- Richard Russo

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“The market always provides us with opportunities.”
“Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.”

Source : Poppy Z. Brite (1997). “Exquisite Corpse”, p.142, Simon and Schuster
“It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.”
“There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're narcissists.”
“With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!”
“Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.”
“Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.”
“Gotta use your brain, it's the most important part of your equipment.”

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