"He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home."

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Source : Stijn Streuvels (2005). “The Path of Life”, p.34, 1st World Publishing

Stijn Streuvels

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“I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is taken to mean the living part of every human being, the part that cannot be grasped. It is a sin that, however much it is committed against us, we almost continually commit ourselves--Except when we love.”

Source : Max Frisch (1989). “Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays”, Burns & Oates
“Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.”
“I want to get off with the screenwriting.”

Source : "Obie Trice: No Gimmicks". Interview with Jigsaw Features, allhiphop.com. April 22, 2003.
“Any individual decisions can be badly thought through, and yet be successful, or exceedingly well thought through, but be unsuccessful, because the recognized possibility of failure in fact occurs. But over time, more thoughtful decision-making will lead to better overall results, and more thoughtful decision-making can be encouraged by evaluating decisions on how well they were made rather than on outcome.”
“Politics becomes a part of a writer's working life. The writer's protagonists are born in the context of the feelings that this atmosphere evokes. How can writers separate themselves from these feelings and create protagonists that come from Mars? Even writers who only write about psychological or internal issues or about love are writing under their prevailing atmosphere, and their writings will take on the hue of the time, place, and mood of their environment.”
“My first influences were superhero artists.”

Source : "Scott McCloud's 'Zot!' is out of this world". Interview with Patrick Montero, www.nydailynews.com. August 24, 2008.
“I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me from love... duty, reason and decency, which upon other occasions have some power over me, are here useless. The Gospel is a language I do not understand when it opposes my passion... but when love has once been sincere how difficult it is to determine to love no more! 'Tis a thousand times more easy to renounce the world than love. I hate this deceitful, faithless world; I think no more of it...”

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