Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be … - Georges Simenon

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It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

Georges Simenon

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

Writing, Artist, Thinking, Unhappiness, Profession

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The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

Become, Lakes, Landscape, Nature, Real

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

Character, Difference, Differences, Live, Novel, Potentially

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

Home, Never Quit, Stranger, Quite, Everywhere

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

Writing, Water, Ink, Squeeze, Like, Life

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.

Criminals, Make, Understood, Years

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Colum McCann

I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we shape our stories, so anything that even happens on the news gets shaped in a certain way and gets a texture, and that the imagined can be real.

News, Real, Shape, Shaped, Stories

George Crumb

Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.

Ideas, Light, Perhaps, Perplexing, Problems, Reflection

Jay Leno

You know what they say when a supermodel gets pregnant? Now she's eating for one.

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Frank McCourt

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

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Isabelle Huppert

If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to. " Very often, very quickly you forget about it.

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