"Great courage will be required to choose the right."

-- Ulisses Soares

“From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.3, Da Capo Press
“Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities”
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

Source : "The Little Prince". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, April, 1943.
“The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone's attention. They want to hear what the guy from 'Con Air' and 'Desperado' has to say.”

Source : "Danny Trejo: 'I went to the hole looking at three gas-chamber offences'". Interview with Lisa Marks, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2012.
“If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.”
“Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.”
“Greatness in art is always a by-product.”

Source : Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.231, University of Chicago Press
“Everybody's got a hunger no matter where they are. Everybody clings to their own fear. Everybody hides some scar - Precious pain. Empty and cold but it keeps me alive. I gave it my soul so that I could survive - keeping me safe in these chains.”

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