"Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard trying to distinguish between the author's persona and the poem's lyrical hero. As a rule, such distinctions are quite meaningless, if only because a lyrical hero is invariably an author's self-projection."

-- Joseph Brodsky

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“I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.”
“I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I donâ€™t want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta. No matter. My brain shuts off. I listen. I respond. And they are too dumb to know that I am not there.”
“Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.”
“I love animals. When I was young, I had two St. Bernards, I still have a dog, I have a lot of cats in my company. My wife always says, "You spend a lot of money on animals. More than even me!"”
“Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.”

Source : "The Broken Kingdoms". Book by N.K. Jemisin, Chapter 3 "Gods and Corpses" (oil on canvas) (p. 58), 2011.
“The only way through death is death itself.”

Source : Christin Lore Weber (1997). “Circle of Mysteries: The Women's Rosary Book”, p.134, Yes International Publishers
“My love is unique. No one can rival her, for she is the most beautiful girl alive. Just by passing, she has stolen my heart.”
“Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual.”

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