"This is what we bear, I thought, the nearness of other lives."

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Source : Jesse Ball (2014). “Silence Once Begun: A Novel”, p.173, Vintage

Jesse Ball

“Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my fatherâ€™s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morningâ€™s dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!”
“What most artists using photography feel that they need to do is to show that they are serious, that they are not taking snapshots. To point a camera at something does not qualify you as an artist because everybody has done that.”
“Success financially is a measure of creative success, it is the same in all arts.”
“Every suit I wear is custom-made by a guy named Waraire Boswell in L.A.”
“If you're into comedy, you will know what the show is about. We have so many comedy geeks, comedy enthusiasts, fanatical people who go to comedy festivals and follow comedians, and really treat it like rock 'n' roll - which it can be, but more like the geeky rock 'n' roll.”
“To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2014). “Miss Marjoribanks”, p.131, The Floating Press
“There is only one perfect road and that road is ahead of you, always ahead of you.”
“Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.”

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