"In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into question. Reading like a cross between Samuel Beckett's 'The Calmative' and Gordon Lish's Dear Mr. Capote, Robert Lopez's new novel gets under your skin and latches on."

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Source : Wendy Mass (2008). “Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life”

Brian Evenson

#Reading Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The greatest scientists are artists as well.”
“There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.”
“And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being. Crusoe cheered himself by thinking that such a thing could happen any day, and it kept him going. But if any of the people now around me came near I would need to run for it and hide in mortal terror. I had to be alone, entirely alone, if I wanted to live.”

Source : Wladyslaw Szpilman (2011). “The Pianist”, p.145, Hachette UK
“The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not before him, not after him.”
“The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.”
“Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.”
“Sleep has never been a priority in my life.”
“I have always wanted to be on Broadway, whether on ice or on the boards.”

Source : "Cousins Continues to Entertain". Golden Skate Interview, goldenskate.com. December 6, 2003.

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