"If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?"

-- Cormac McCarthy

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“Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going”
“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”
“Some people just donâ€™t appreciate having a dog around. Itâ€™s sad to think there are people like that. I knew Gloria was that wayâ€”maybe thatâ€™s why she could never be truly happy.”
“Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didnâ€™t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, â€œgood book,â€ as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.”

Source : Jack Gantos (2002). “Hole in My Life”, p.61, Macmillan
“My son is not a public figure to me, he is my son. I can't predict what's going to be in the headlines. Justin has always been someone who has to do things his way. And I have to be able to believe he will do the right thing and he will come out on top.”
“Living alone,' November whispered, 'is a skill, like running long distance or programming old computers. You have to know parameters, protocols. You have to learn them so well that they become like a language: to have music always so that the silence doesn't overwhelm you, to perform your work exquisitely well so that your time is filled. You have to allow yourself to open up until you are the exact size of the place you live, no more or else you get restless. No less, or else you drown. There are rules; there are ways of being and not being.”
“Probably the most pervasive false belief most of us harbor is the fallacy that only some superhuman act would have the power to turn our problems around. Nothing could be further from the truth. Life is cumulative. Whatever results we're experiencing in our lives are the accumulation of a host of small decisions we've made as individuals, as a family, as a community, as a society, and as a species.”
“There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at.”

Source : Sidney Lumet (2010). “Making Movies”, p.47, Vintage

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