"I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point. After a while I arrive at an accommodation: Well, it's not the ideal, it's not the perfect object I wanted to make, but maybeÂ—if I go ahead and finish it anywayÂ—I can get it right next time. Maybe I can have another chance."

-- Joan Didion

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“Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.”
“The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.”
“And why the hell should you do a really hard, important job that you don't want to do? That has extremely high stakes? That just blows my mind.”

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“They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.”

Source : Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group
“I am the hit-maker, the record-breaker. I got style and grace, a pretty face. I'll make your back crack, your liver quiver.”
“My approach has always been rather sensual.”
“Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.”
“I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.”

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