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“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
Source : "Outside Over There". Interview With Emma Brockes, harpers.org. March 2013.
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“My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was going on - she just liked the uniform. When he told her about the things that he did, she was disgusted and broke up with him.”
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“I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.”
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“The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.”
Source : "Arshile Gorky: Goats on the Roof : a Life in Letters and Documents". Book by Arshile Gorky, 2009.
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“Inspiration in desperation.”
Source : Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.217, Hachette UK
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“We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business...There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.”
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“What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a certain element of blues, even a hint of soul or blues music, derivative of African-American blues, folk, spiritual, or gospel.”
Source : "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.
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“Atheists are the new gays; in the closet and pretty much disqualified from public office.”