"There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. We must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public."

-- Philip K. Dick

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“With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.”
“I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and cool. But I could record the same song next week and it would be something completely different.”
“My coach told me, "Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there's always someone out there who's working just a little harder - if you take 150 practice shots, he's taking 200." And that drove me.”
“It doesnt matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesnt give me more or less motivation.”
“It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I donâ€™t know what else to say except that life itself seemed very magical in those days: a web of symbol, coincidence, premonition, omen. Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come togetherâ€“my future, my past, the whole of my lifeâ€“and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!”

Source : Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.88, Vintage
“I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.”

Source : "A passage from India". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2006.
“Movies are designed to tell us stories, engage us on an emotional level and keep our attention. This can be done with a wide range of emotional triggers - Love, adrenaline, comedy. But fear is a highly potent sensation.”
“We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.”

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