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- The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.
- Character is the plot in many ways
- The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.
- Privilege does not operate without silence.
- I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.
- I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.
- I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.
- Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.
- I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.
- I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.
- I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth…
- I mean, I'm an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody…
- I sleep way too much and I read tremendously.
- I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.
- I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.
- I'm an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever.
- I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.
- It took me sixteen years to write.
- Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.
- My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.
- Spin is 'something is beautiful because we say it's beautiful.'
- Technically, I split my time between N.Y.C. and Boston.
- I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than…
- It's never the changes we want that change everything.
- The only way out is in.
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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
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- 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