"Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written."

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.”
“I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.”
“When I write a book I write the best that I can and so much of that for me is following the book's demands, the subject's requirements - I love books, I always have. They have always been one of the places where I have felt very happy in the world. When I was younger, I loved to read genre fiction - I loved the magic-carpet ride of story! Now I need other things - I need the beautiful particular and strange language and form which brings a writer's book to life in me and speaks to my intellect, and, dare I say it, to my soul.”
“Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.”
“What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.”
“I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking.”
“Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings; rather they are here in order to grow, to transform, to become their authentic selves.”
“'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.”

Source : "Black and white and bloody" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2005.

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