"..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision."

-- Ivan KlÃma

#Desire Quotes #Degrees Quotes #Obsession Quotes

“Love knows no winter; no, no! It is, and remains the sign of spring.”
“I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do.”

Source : Helen Frankenthaler, Barbara Rose (1970*). “Frankenthaler”
“The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.”
“Indian Muslims have stayed very far away from Al Qaeda and the like; they have voted with their feet and stayed in the country, rather than going to Pakistan during partition. On the whole, they recognize that life is better for them in India than in Pakistan.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly.”
“The conventional wisdom is - people say this all the time - you should only write something when you're far enough away from it that you can have a perspective. But that's not true. That's a story that you're telling. The truth of it is here, right now. It's the only truth that we ever know. And I'm interested in that truth and the confusion being part of the experience and sorting it your way through and figuring it out.”

Source : "Charlie Kaufman" by Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.
“I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.”

Source : "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.
“There are not a ton of people buying cars - cars are expensive. So people usually go for the cheapest car they can get. And if the price of gasoline falls again, it makes the savings that you get with an electric car harder to realize.”

Source : "The Electric Car Strikes Back?". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. May 2, 2011.

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