"This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes the nature of a fiction, an illusion, a devilish apparition. To a greater or lesser extent this applies to all the postcommunist countries."

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Source : Andrzej Stasiuk (2009). “Fado”

Andrzej Stasiuk

#Country Quotes #Names Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“The last time I did a movie that needed a horse, I said: 'If it moves, I'm out of here.' The worst thing is, they know when you're afraid and act up accordingly. I've had them run off on me. Horses I do not like.”
“I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.”
“I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.”
“We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.”

Source : "Science and Morality". Science, Vol. 280, (p. 1200), 1998.
“The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.”

Source : National Book Foundation's BookUpNYC Interview, www.nationalbook.org.
“It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I want a man as nice as my retarded dog, but one that doesn't crap on the floor.”

Source : Laurie Notaro (2002). “The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life”, p.78, Villard

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