"If you can discover what you like, if you can discover what you truly believe about most of the major matters of life, you will be able to write a story which is honest and original and unique."

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Source : Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.59, Lulu.com

Dorothea Brande

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“The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.”
“My apartment looks like no one lives in it.”
“Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they donâ€™t have any discipline in how theyÂ look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically,”
“Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.”
“I don't think comedians take advantage of the fact that television and film are visual mediums.”
“She reaches up and pulls my face to her and kisses me, her soft lips on mine. I don't want her to stop kissing me. As long as she is, then everything is fine. Everything is right, I would stay in this room forever if I could. The world can pass by without me, without us. Just as long as we can stay here, together, in each other's arms.”
“The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.”

Source : Hillary Jordan (2008). “Mudbound”, p.14, Random House
“Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than a kaleidoscopic oral biography of President Bill Clinton. Aspect by aspect, it guides us through the struggles of postmodern America, as the most ambitious baby boomer of his generation seeks to modernize the Democratic Party-and, as in a Greek drama, is fated to be destroyed. Veritably, an all-American saga, with a cast of thousands-favorable and unfavorable.”

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