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“Soup is life in a pot.”

“ I love this restaurant because both its aesthetic and its menu sit between the elegant and the everyday, which is what we should all strive for.”

“When artists worry about where they stand, they take time and psychic energy away from the only thing that matters—the making of art.”

“If you only come face-to-face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it’s bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day—that way they ain’t usually much worse than a dry shave.” -Augustus to Call

Morton talking w/ Sharon Olds: “…I said…, that I wanted to encourage students to respect the language. She looked startled, and she said, ‘Respect the language? I don’t want to respect the language. I want to…fuck the language!’
“…it was clear that.. she was talking about a kind of ecstatic communion.
“…I should have said, “Can’t you do both?”

“And the thought of putting my characters through predetermined paces—I’ll fortune to good fortune, or vice versa—held little appeal. I wanted to follow my characters around and see where life took them. I wanted my characters to discover their own fates.” —Me too!

“If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—an feisty gentlemen.” —Wise words from Gus McCrae