"To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me."

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Source : "A 'Cooked Seed' Sprouts After All, In America". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 12, 2013.

Anchee Min

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“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”

Source : Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)
“I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.”
“Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.”
“The problem: Democrats have to drop their stupid class-warfare rhetoric. With 74 million Americans owning stock in one form or another, anything which helps them can't be derided as a sop to the rich.”
“A coincidence is a trend we have decided not to take seriously.”

Source : Philip Elliot Slater (1977). “The wayward gate: science and the supernatural”
“Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.”
“The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.”
“All of us as consumers have gotten spoiled, ... We expect customized goods and services at commodity prices. The only way we can do that is to cut the fat out of our price structure.”

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