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" Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it. "

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" We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting. "

" For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States. "

" A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic. "

" The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. "

" A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. "

" In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of understanding, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity. "

" By the mid-17th century, telescopes had improved enough to make visible the seasonally growing and shrinking polar ice caps on Mars, and features such as Syrtis Major, a dark patch thought to be a shallow sea. "

" Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides. "

" I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest. "

" The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. "

" Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's. "

" When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of the large white house in which we lived throughout my boyhood. This tree I learned quite early, was exactly my age - was, in a sense, me. "

" I never really made a choice to live in America, so I should be aware of the social strata outside of the ones that I may live in. "

" The rich - they just live in another realm, really. "

" Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better. "

" We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. "

" Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty. "

" When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin. "

" People are incorrigibly themselves. "

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" I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles if I had to. "

" But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. "

" As movers and the moved both know, books are heavy freight, the weight of refrigerators and sofas broken up into cardboard boxes. They make us think twice about changing addresses. "

" In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip. "

" Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot. "

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" It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in other coin - glory, love, whatever. "

" The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific. "

" The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images. "