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Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.

Haruki Murakami (2011). “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman”, p.222, Random House

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.44, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

"Eighty-one Years. Seventy-nine Movies. Two Oscars. Not One Bad Performance". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. June 1, 2011.

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

"The Life and Legend of Gene Fowler". Book by H. Allen Smith, 1977.