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- The writer’s life is a life of revisions.
- Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose,
- The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than 'The Metamorphosis'.
- Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I dont see how you could stand…
- We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.
- Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.
- The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.
- I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.
- I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.
- I hate that word dysfunction.
- I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously…
- I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.
- I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.
- The world was ending then, it's ending still, and I'm happy to belong to it again.
- I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.
- And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be…
- You're either reading a book or you're not.
- Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.
- He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.
- Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshit” (402).
- Deploring other people--their lack of perfection--had always been our sport.
- ...She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.
- Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.
- His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake.
- Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead!
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento