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The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.


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Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.



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There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies.



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Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you.



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I love rains which carry desires to oceans.



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I always had a few people who liked what I did, and that was enough.



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Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.



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There is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.



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if you aren't here your heart won't break in the same way.





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As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.



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I have a few cavities. I don't like to call them cavities, though - I like to call them 'places to put stuff'. 'Do you know where I can store a pea' 'Yes, I have some locations available.'



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Maybe I'm going from that tomboy-ish state to feeling a bit more womanly. I've enjoyed wearing some fancy frocks. It's nice once in a while.




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