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-- Rod Dixon

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“Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.”
“I hated Hollywood. Itâ€™s a town without pity. Only success counts. I know of no other place in the world where so many people suffer from nervous breakdowns,Â where there are so many alcoholics, neurotics and so much unhappiness.”
“I get mad at the New York-based environmentalists because if you were truly environmentalists you wouldn't have a storm surge system and a sanitary system hooked together here that requires you to close your beaches 10 times a year.”
“It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the support, and beauty will sink from sight.”
“Love is merely a madness.”
“All that matters to me as a reader are characters. I want characters to be real, authentic, and rounded. I will be digging into characters for at least a month. Who they are. What they are like. Outside of the story.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: Â the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.”

Source : Frank Norris, Donald Pizer (1986). “Novels and Essays”, p.1112, Library of America
“First time I ever took acid and got really high, as I was walking around I thought "Gee. The world looked like this when I was a little kid." I remember seeing the sparkling reality and three-dimensionality of things. Sort of like a renewal, every time you do it is a renewal, it is a renewal. It keeps your head young. It lets you keep that being able to accept the new thing just as easily as a kid would. Most people get all this stuff in their head like an old library, no room for the new volume to go on the shelves.”

Source : Source: medium.com

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