"I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same."

-- Diane Setterfield

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“If we return to the two faces of individualism - individualism as the spur of energy, initiative, and imagination; and individualism as the limitless struggle of all against all - it can be seen how the two practices emerge from and limit the extend of the disequilibrating impact of the contradiction involved in the geocultural agenda.”
“I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.”

Source : "Sweetheart Of The Sun & Modern Art : Chatting With The Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2011.
“In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves.”
“..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.”
“Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'”
“I wish I'd done 'Dumb and Dumber.' I was offered the part, but I don't think I'd have been better than Jeff Daniels was. Another film I wish I'd done was 'Jerry Maguire.'”
“What is once well done is done forever.”
“Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell”

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