"Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain."

-- Tan Twan Eng

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“I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum's from Naples and my dad's from Sicily, so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language.”

Source : "Discovery: Luke Pasqualino" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2012.
“The work that I wanted to create wasn't being done then. I was too much concerned about fellow students, professors, institutional style [in Yale].”
“When I was a teenager, I had pimples - oh, God, every time someone looked at my face I thought they were looking at my pimples. I put mud on my face to dry them out, and it worked.”
“The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.”
“Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I actually hear into life - seeing everything that's occurring as a conversation with God in some form. So it really is the next song on the radio - a chance utterance of a friend on the street - it really is what's happening right now. I stop and think, 'What is life trying to tell me right now?' And "What does my soul know about this?'”
“What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?”
“I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.”

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