“BIG BROTHER is watching you.”
~ George Orwell, b. 25 June 1903
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George Orwell (b. June 25): “Big Brother is watching you.”
25 JunDuffy (b. June 23): “I think music is the only thing that I’ll ever really have.”
23 Jun
“I think music is the only thing that I’ll ever really have.”
~ Duffy, b. 23 June 1984
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Saul Bellow (b. June 10): “A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.”
10 Jun
Saul Bellow (born 10 June 1915, died 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times.
Quotes on writing:
- A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
- A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
- People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
- A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
- I’ve discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgement and to say in his heart of hearts, “To hell with you.”
- With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you’ve fallen into good hands – someone from whom you can accept the anaesthetic with confidence.
- A writer should be able to express himself easily, naturally, copiously in a form that frees his mind, his energies. Why should he hobble himself with formalities?
- You become a writer because you’re convinced that you have a grip on reality of a certain distinctive kind. It belongs to you and to others who share such a recognition.
- When I finish something, I generally put it on the shelf, and I very seldom look at it unless somebody mentions it to me, and then I open the book, and I read it, and I say, “Did I do that?”
Allen Ginsberg (b. June 3rd): “Whoever controls media images, controls culture.”
3 Jun
“Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.”
~ Allen Ginsberg, b. 3 June 1926
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Michael Chabon (b. May 24): “To become a successful novelist, you need talent, luck and discipline…”
24 May
“You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.”
~ Michael Chabon, b. 24 May 1963
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Queen Victoria (b. May 24): “Intimacy with artists is dangerous…”
24 May
“I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.”
~ Queen Victoria, b. 24 May 1819
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Jewel (b. May 23) “Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.”
23 May
“Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.”
~ Jewel, b. 23 May 1974
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Naomi Campbell (b. May 22): “Why do I have to wear underwear?”
22 May
“I don’t always wear underwear. When I’m in the heat, especially, I can’t wear it. Like, if I’m wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?”
~ Naomi Campbell, b. 22 May 1970
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Timothy Olyphant (b. May 20): “I’m attracted to roles that are unpredictable…”
20 May
“I’m attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I’m thrilled. I like performances where you don’t know what’s coming, moment to moment.”
~ Timothy Olyphant, b. 20 May 1968
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19 May
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