"For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers' and the journalists' experiences are probably pale flavors, but they carry nonetheless a hint of ambrosia."

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Source : Howell Raines (2006). “The One that Got Away: A Memoir”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

Howell Raines

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“What shop did this book come from? she asked. Her father was looking worried at the cooker. He always got rice wrong. I don't know, Brooksie, he said, I don't remember. That was unimaginable, not remembering where a book has come from! and where it was bought from! That was part of the whole history, the whole point, of any book that you owned! And when you picked it up later in the house at home, you knew, you just knew by looking and having it in your hand, where it came from and where you got it and when and why you'd decided to buy it.”
“These days, I find it harder to listen to really trebly lo-fi recordings. At the same time, without the old limitations, these new technologies require self control. So much of the software seems to be about correcting imperfections - quantizing, Auto-tune - and, to me, those corrections can really drain the life out of a performance.”
“You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.”

Source : "Q&A: The Funniest Man on The Mindy Project". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. February 19, 2013.
“Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.”
“We [with Marjane Satrapi] both have very strong personalities, but that's completely normal, because even if you're very well prepared, you never know when you shoot live action.”
“I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.”
“Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.”
“Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.”

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