"I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives."

-- Robert Gottlieb

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“The customer is not always right.”
“Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods. Their ways are not meant for the humble likes of us. But we've decoded some of their secrets regardless. Like worms, we've grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight. But we can never really fly. We try, and succeed to a certain extent, but the fall is always - will always be - there.”
“My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting. That's just a phase I've been in lately. I don't think this should be how i proceed in life. It's important to be self-aware about these things because you don't want to end up with that guy.”
“A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible, or at least impolite.”
“Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs”
“It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.”

Source : Deborah Harkness (2012). “Shadow of Night: A Novel”, p.337, Penguin
“When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.”
“I got a little lost in "Law & Order" and "Luther" and all those shows where it's basically women dying all the time, I had to stop watching that stuff because it fills me with anxiety. And I joined a gym.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 15, 2013.

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