"Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly."

-- David Foster Wallace

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“I'm not a - I'm beautiful, but I'm not working because I'm drop-dead gorgeous with a fantastic body. I think I continue to work because I'm good at my craft. I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.”

Source : "True Blood Actress Adina Porter: On Grief, Dedication, and Balance". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits: This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid. Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.”
“That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.”

Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.30, New York Review of Books
“Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.”

Source : Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. July 12, 2007.
“What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.”
“America, thereâ€™s no question that youâ€™ve had my heart from the beginning. By now you have to know that”
“There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.”
“Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.”

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