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“All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.”
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“Every journalist who is not too stupid or full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.”
― The Journalist and the Murderer
― The Journalist and the Murderer
“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
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“Man is what he believes.”
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“So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it’s a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the curtains -- and one of those Chopin melodies that feel like sorrow and ecstasy all mixed together pouring from the keys -- and you have my idea of happiness. Or just reading, reading and lamplight, the sound of pages turning.
And so you dare to be happy.
You do that thing.
You dare.”
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And so you dare to be happy.
You do that thing.
You dare.”
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