"Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does."

-- Stanley Elkin

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“When I was younger, I didn't like shooting part, because I was more of a writer and didn't like being the center of it all.”

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“Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.”
“People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.”
“The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hundreds of millions of brains. It has to dominate education everywhere in the world. When that end is achieved, then the world state will be achievedâ€¦”
“Every moment of living has its own logic, its own meaning.”
“The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.”
“Skill is a cellular insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows in response to certain signals.”
“In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.”

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