"Change and decay in all around I see..."

-- Henry Francis Lyte

“But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts.”
“I gather together the dreams, fantasies, experiences that preoccupied me as a girl, that stay with me and appear and reappear in different shapes and forms in all my work. Without telling everything that happened, they document all that remains most vivid.”
“I'm really interested in the minutiae of different tones and what that explains - how people's backgrounds are reflected in minute details of how they interact. It's true that I'm hypersensitive to all that. Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.”

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“If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.”

Source : Amos Oz (2005). “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master's humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.”
“Vice is basically the love of failure.”

Source : Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.118, Profile Books
“The scalpel won't make you happy.”
“But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.”

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