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The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#crystal #day #drawer #get #hand

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#artist #books #bookstore #colorful #display

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act. ↗

— Billy Boyd

#acting #direct #find #i #just

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear. ↗

— Leonhard Euler

#creator #does #fabric #maximum #minimum

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#film #films #i #make #objectively

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. ↗

— Euripides

#future #his #learning #loses #neglects

They only babble who practise not reflection. ↗

— Edward Young

#only #practise #reflection #who

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory. ↗

— Max Euwe

#chess #game #main #object #remains

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them. ↗

— Robert Boyle

#awake #black #confidence #distracted #fiends

I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#box #burned #crying #curb #huge