"A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted."

-- C. S. Forester

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“The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.”

Source : Song: The Confessor
“Fame is O.K. I hate it, but it's O.K. I'm beginning to understand how I can be hidden. It's an attitude.”

Source : "Romain Duris: 'I don't want to be Hollywood's poor little Frenchman'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2011.
“I think liberals should accept that if we want big programs that significantly reduce inequality - and we should - it's going to require higher taxes on everyone. The rich can certainly do more, especially given their stupendous income increases since the Reagan era, but they can't do it all.”
“I loved Omar Vizquel. He tells some really long jokes, and he has his own way of telling them, but he can make every joke very funny. He would always come up with jokes on the loudspeaker on the bus.”
“It seems after the disaster many good things and blessings happen,.”
“I would love [to learn more about fashion] - anything that's going to help me put certain looks together.”
“When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy.”

Source : "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.
“We are still conditioning people in this country and, indeed, all over the globe to the myth of white superiority. We are constantly being told that we don't have racism in this country anymore, but most of the people who are saying that are white. White people think it isn't happening because it isn't happening to them.”

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