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last updated: November 28, 2023

What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if i were dying from the want of her.
-- Jed Rubenfeld

Source : Jed Rubenfeld (2007). “The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel”, p.235, Macmillan

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I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.
-- Philip Hensher

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“The biggest piece of advice that I give young comedians is: If it's your goal to get where I'm at, go do something else. Because you'll never get here. Never. The odds are so bad. Because not only do you have to be a really, really strong comedian but you also have to be lucky. And most people don't get that combination.”

Source : Source: www.dead-frog.com
“It PASSED! Marriage equality in NY!! Yes!! Progress!! Thank you everyone who worked so hard on this!! A historic night!”
“I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.”

Source : "'V For Vendetta' - Joel Silver/James McTeigue interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
“Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things.”
“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.”

Source : Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History, 1906, sourcebooks.fordham.edu. June 11, 1895.
“Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.”
“I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.”
“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
“Bottlenecks are usually at the tops of bottles.”
“It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up. It is community that calls me beyond the pinched horizons of my own life, my own country, my own race, and gives me the gifts I do not have within me.”