"There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes."

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Source : William Trevor (1999). “Death in Summer”, p.145, Penguin

William Trevor

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“Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.”

Source : "Marianne Faithfull: 'I don't think I had any choice but to be decadent'". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2013.
“At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.”
“You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.”
“There's more to life than love.”

Source : "Ramon Bautista On Fashionable Girls". Style Factor Interview, sg.style.yahoo.com. November 23, 2012.
“Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are.”

Source : Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.4, Broadway Books
“Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again.”

Source : Henry Seidel Canby (1926). “Better Writing”
“Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.”
“Matt Drudge's role in the Monica Lewinski scandal] strikes me as a new and graphic power of the Internet to influence mainstream journalism. And I suspect that over the next couple of years that impact will grow to the point where it will damage journalism's ability to do its job professionally, to check out information before publication, to be mindful of the necessity to publish and broadcast reliable, substantiated information.”

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