"It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated."

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Source : "Manifold Destiny". www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2006.

Grigori Perelman

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“The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.”
“My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.”
“Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.”
“I grew up thinking I had very little value. It's not something I felt I could share with my mom so it was all inside me.”

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“The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.”
“I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of the plot. I write without thinking much, trying to overcome all kinds of self-criticism, without stopping, without giving any consideration to the style or structure of the novel, only putting down on paper everything that can be used as raw material, very crude material for later development in the story.”
“I used to sing on the school bus everyday.”
“I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.”

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