"This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. Itâ€™s a place that does not exist."

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Source : Alessandro Baricco (2013). “Ocean Sea”, p.105, Canongate Books

Alessandro Baricco

#Land Quotes #Sea Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Flies? Flies? Poor puny things. Who wants to eat flies?”

Source : "Fictional character: Renfield". "Dracula", www.imdb.com. 1931.
“Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.”
“If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race or that sex, and they can't be interesting because everything they do has to represent an entire block of people. You know, Superman isn't all white people and neither is Lex Luthor. We knew we had to present a range of characters within each ethnic group, which means that we couldn't do just one book. We had to do a series of books and we had to present a view of the world that's wider than the world we've seen before.”
“I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.”
“There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.”
“Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.”

Source : Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books
“I think I have a lot to offer doing supporting roles as well.”
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”

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