"Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, donâ€™t we secretly clasp each otherâ€™s hands?"

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Source : Bruno Schulz (2011). “The Fictions of Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles & Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass: The Street of Crocodiles & Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass”, p.101, Pan Macmillan

Bruno Schulz

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“My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.”
“I also try to eat as much raw food and clean food as possible.”
“[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.”
“I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.”
“I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.”

Source : Emanuel Haldeman-Julius' eulogy for Clarence Darrow, 1938.
“John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.”
“If you grew up watching 'Star Wars' you're like, wow, look at Darth Maul, he has that outfit. And that lightsaber. And he's jumping. When I see stuff, rarely do I forget. And that's what I always wanted to wear.”
“When people on airplanes ask me what I do, I used to say I was a physicist, which ended the discussion. I once said I was a cosmologist, but they started asking me about makeup, and the title 'astronomer' gets confused with astrologer. Now I say I make maps.”

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