"Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane."

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Justin Halpern

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“Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they are gone no moon in the sky is lucid enough to compare with the light they shed when they are among the living.”

Source : Carlos Bulosan, Epifanio San Juan (1995). “On Becoming Filipino: Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan”, p.88, Temple University Press
“I think that in an Internet age, content is content. As long as you can stand up on the merits of what you're doing right at that moment and aren't just relying on your success in doing something else, it's all good; people will respect you.”
“I firmly believe that a free Iraq will be a catalyst to other substantive and important changes in that part of the world.”
“We donâ€™t need more money, we donâ€™t need greater success or fame, we donâ€™t need the perfect body or even the perfect mate-right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.”
“Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.”
“I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.”
“On how to make an egg roll: "Roll it nice and tight like a blunt."”
“The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that between Boston Brahmin and Boston lace-curtain Irish, though much finer.”

Source : Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

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