"Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated."

-- William Carlos Williams

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“Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.”
“A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.”

Source : Paul Bowles (2002). “The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House”
“People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.”
“You want to grow. To compete effectively - - even if you weren't going to grow, just to maintain your position - - you look at who you're competing with. And everyone you're competing with is changing to get better, sometimes dramatically.”
“That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.”
“I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.”

Source : "Good clean fun?" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2004.
“In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.”
“The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.”

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