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Roland Merullo
"Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of doing things, and some of that always shows in the children, the way something of Germany or Australia always shows in a German or an Australian, no matter where they go. Outsiders like it or they don't, they feel at home there or they don't. It's like the taste of cilantro." --
Source : Roland Merullo (2009). “A Little Love Story: A Novel”, p.96, Vintage
Roland Merullo
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“You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science and Art at their two extremes - say Pure Mathematics and Acting. Science as a rule deals with things, Art with man's thought and emotion about things.”
“Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects; they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the relations don't change. Matter is not important, only form interests them.”
“I might be a stalwart, but I'm not a kingmaker.”
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“Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.”
“Marketing is what gets you noticed.”
Source : "An Interview with Rowan Atkinson". Interview with Ken P., ca.ign.com. July 18, 2003.
“The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom.”
“I am a hopeless romantic.”
“Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety. The heart which clings to goods receives with them the choking burden of worry. Worry collects treasures, and treasures produce more worries. We desire to secure our lives with earthly goods; we want our worrying to make us worry-free, but the truth is the opposite. The chains which bind us to earthly goods, the clutches which hold the goods tight, are themselves worries.”