"In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre."

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John D'Agata

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“I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.”
“I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.”
“Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, - who is good? Not that men are ignorant, - what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.”
“I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison.”
“If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.”

Source : Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.33, Vintage
“You can be this super-successful woman who's smart and effective but still feminine. When I worked in finance, I didn't always think that was possible.”
“No labor is hopeless.”
“A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.”

Source : "Hot Topic: Charlie Hunnam". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. October 10, 2012.

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