"And if I have to die trying, I will get out of here."

--

Lauren DeStefano

“I couldn't tell how many times I've been to Japan off the top of my head, I just have a few standout moments that were very defining and inspirational at different parts of my life. As far as moving there, I don't know. That's a tall order there. I feel there's people that go so far as to do that, and good for them, but I just can't. For me it's not a misplaced passion or a weird infatuation - it's more like I've just had a good chance to realize how immensely their art has affected our American culture, and I don't take it for granted. I've got a very big appreciation.”
“Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have such visions? They die of all sorts of diseases; they have nervous temperaments; they even have creeds and hopes about the future which they cling to with very great tenacity; why do not they rejoice in some such glorious illusions when they go out of the world?”

Source : Enoch Fitch Burr (1871). “Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible”, p.305
“Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.”
“Blood fills my mouth. Fire sears my veins. I choke back a howl. The silver knife slips--the choice is mine. I am death or life. I am salvation or destruction. Angel or demon. I am grace. I plunge in the knife. This is my sacrifice-- I am the monster.”

Source : Bree Despain (2011). “The Dark Divine”, p.5, Egmont UK
“I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.”
“Elijah Wood is interested in people, in life and in music.”
“The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion - that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change. To many, the solution seems simple enough: such a change being impossible, the art of the novel is dying.”

Source : Alain Robbe-Grillet, Richard Howard (1989). “For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction”, p.17, Northwestern University Press
“..."I ran out of stock around midnight and dropped by a place, got some Chinese." I hoped he meant takeout.”

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