"You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content."

-- Knut Hamsun

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“You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport.”
“We can't laugh quite as much on camera, but we sure do on the set.”
“If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.”
“We are the ghosts of the singing furies .”

Source : Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr
“In life you have a choice: Bitter or Better? Choose better, forget bitter.”
“I'm an ensemble guy, I guess - that comes from the theater. If I ever won some kind of award someday, I imagine I'd try to be very gracious, but in the end, I just want to keep working. I don't see why that, if you just put your mind to it and keep sowing the right seeds, you can't keep doing the things you want to do.”

Source : "The Contender Q&A: Garret Dillahunt". Interview with Paul Gaita, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 17, 2009.
“We believe it is the duty of the vanguard political movement which brings change to educate people's outlook”
“I am made of endless hours. Not just split seconds.”

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