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“I don't find perfection especially interesting. Art is not all about refinement and formal accomplishment. It is about passion and imagination and courage and these things that I didn't understand when I was kid being taught the rules. I realized that a novel could be. . .art could be. . . what I wanted to make it if I could pull it off.”
― Steve Erickson

“This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“Fame is a form - perhaps the worst form - of incomprehension.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Fictions/Ficciones

“There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.”
― Tom Waits