"Every man is the hero of his own song."

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Source : Tad Williams (2000). “Otherland 3: Mountain of Black Glass”, p.246, Penguin

Tad Williams

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“What I love about the currawongs is the way in which they appear from nowhere and, for a brief period, rule the garden's soundscape, only to disappear as quickly as they arrived.”
“It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth should chew your leg like a quid of tobacco. It breaks the routine of the thing, and putting other considerations aside, I am an orderly man and don't like that. This is by the way.”
“I don't think I spoil my kids, I'm fairly responsible.”
“When people show you who they are ... believe them!”

Source : "How you know you're in 'Shondaland'" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. September 25, 2014.
“As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.”
“It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.”
“The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because its kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.”
“I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know?”

Source : "What Makes art, Art?" by Amber Kane, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2016.

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