"Motherâ€™s particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truthâ€™s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free."

-- Mary Karr

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“Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.”
“As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.”
“I allow my creativity to push me in directions that are simply interesting to me and I donâ€™t worry about the likeness of the result to some notion - some paradigm - of what music composition is supposed to be.”
“We are not a problem people, we are people with problems.”

Source : Dorothy Height, Height (2009). “Ebk Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memo”, p.218, PublicAffairs
“The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and sexually abused and because I felt different than everybody else and I had this big huge secret that was tearing me apart.”
“The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price.”
“Vegetable box schemes, local greengrocers, farmers' markets and organic stores are a great place to source package-free foods.”
“It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.”

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