"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive."

-- Jack London

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“In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!”
“You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction work. A journalist amasses facts, anecdotes and interviews with top brass. Enough of these add up to a book. A novelist demands quite different things. He has to find himself in his materials, to know for sure how he would feel and act and the events he writes about. In addition, he requires a catalyst â€” a person, idea, or emotion which coalesces his ingredients and makes them jell into a solid purpose.”
“I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.”
“I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.”
“Satire is what closes on Saturday night.”

Source : "The House of Blue Leaves: Review" by David Rooney, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 25, 2011.
“I go forth to seek To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.”
“When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.”
“The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them”

Source : "Experts: Big Hurricanes in Future", www.wired.com. October 2, 2005.

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