"What I find is that many times when I work with chance, with indeterminacy, I am more open to experience, less prone to a fixed process, and I think it creates a very important challenge. It creates a way of writing that is, in a way, flatter or smooth, a surface conducive to release, to movement. And in this way, the form of writing gets delightfully melded with the process of the writing."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Sergio Chejfec

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.”
“The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd rather be wrong with Dante and Shakespeare and Milton, with Augustine of Hippo and Francis of Assisi, with Dr. Johnson, Blake, and Dostoevsky than right with Voltaire, Rousseau, the Huxleys, Herbert Spencer, H. G. Wells, and Bernard Shaw.”

Source : Quoted in Vintage Muggeridge, ed. Geoffrey Barlow (1985)
“hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!”
“Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.”
“If you tell a friend a secret, she will keep the secret by telling only one other person.”

Source : Lisa Birnbach, Patricia Marx, Ann Hodgman (1999). “1,003 Great Things about Friends”, p.3, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language.”

Source : "Gr8 db8r takes on linguistic luddites" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2008.
“There have been many times when I've auditioned and I've actually won a different role in the same film.”
“The tolerance of the public is diminishing. We're spending time on the wrong people. It's nutty. There has to be a better way. Why are we stripsearching Aunt Molly from Iowa and letting on Richard Reid?”

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