"If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man."

-- Paulo Coelho

“Letâ€™s summarize. What is awesomeness? Awesomeness happens when thick â€” real, meaningful â€” value is created by people who love what they do, added to insanely great stuff, and multiplied by communities who are delighted and inspired because they are authentically better off. Thatâ€™s a better kind of innovation, built for 21st century economics.”
“I just want to do everything. As broad as that seems, it's kind of the plan. There are so many different genres out there to do, so many different characters to play, so many different amazing actors and directors to work with. I'm just following my gut, and if it's speaking to me, then I'm doing it.”
“Reade was an emancipating writer because he seemed to speak as man to man to resolve history into an intelligible pattern in which there was no need for miracles. Even if he was wrong, he was grown-up.”
“I send a silent thank-you to Dalton for suggesting I wash off the makeup. How ridiculous, how perverse I would feel presenting that painted Capitol mask to these people. The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me, why I belong to them.”
“Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.”
“A man with a camera was always suspected of being a spy. Moreover, the Jews did not want to be photographed, due to a misunderstanding of the prohibition against making graven images (photography had not been invented when the Torah was written!). I was forced to use a hidden camera.”
“Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied.”

Source : Gregory Galloway (2015). “As Simple as Snow”, p.202, Penguin
“The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.”

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