"My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us."

-- Chris Abani

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“Collaborations work when both or however many parties are the right people to be working together for whatever reason - whether it's two musicians or a musician and a filmmaker or a musician and a choreographer, if the combination is right, the possibility exists to make something greater than the individuals could make. But if the combination is wrong than you generally end up with a compromised piece is probably less than the individuals could make.”

Source : "PJ Harvey and John Parish". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 27, 2009.
“He's a gift from heaven, he is truly a gift from heaven. Whatever he touches turns to gold.”
“Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right and play right. The only way that works is to emotionally and technically act out and see the scene you're in. There's no better job in the world, because when I sit down at that computer I'm the world's best forensics expert, if that's what I'm writing about that day. Or I'm some crazed psycho running down a dark alley. Or I'm a gorgeous woman looking to find a man that night. Whatever! But I'm all of those things, every day. How can you beat that?”
“I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men: A Novel”, p.84, Macmillan
“I'm not interested myself personally right now in doing anything. We went there. We lost a lot of blood, a lot of treasure, did a lot for them. They weren't interested in us staying. They made a choice.”
“The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.”
“One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.”
“In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.”

Source : William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.55, Transaction Publishers

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