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“The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.”
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“A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.”
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“Take your records, take you freedom, take your memories, I dont need 'em. And take your cat, and leave my sweater, cause we've got nothing left to weather.”
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“For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school.”
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“A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.”
Source : Nina Bawden (2011). “In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography”, p.99, Hachette UK
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“We are each an army of one. March forward with your army, never let go of your future and never listen to idiots who tell you ‘no.’”
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“There are basically two kinds of tax, the kind the masses can see, and the kind they can't. The inflation tax is of the second kind.”
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“The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men.”
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“At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfect faith in humanity as it is to be.”
Source : Lionel Trilling, Leon Wieseltier (2009). “The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays”, p.31, Northwestern University Press
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“A 'Magik' session is a journey through different stages of emotions and the 'Search for Sunrise' is more chilling music for when you come home after a party or when you are just about to go to one.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
