"It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill him. I do hope you like this pudding. I had to ride quite a way to find the plums."

-- Larry McMurtry

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“A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single waking moment up until that point for a career that could maybe only last 10 years, maybe longer if your body holds up, if your injuries are kept at bay.”

Source : "Joan Chen and Amanda Schull Interview MAO’S LAST DANCER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 18, 2010.
“Speaking for myself, but [Kriota] probably [agrees], I don't do different things because I have to, but certainly my career's taken a lot of twists and turns because things work out for a while and then something shifts and they don't. I went into illustration as a way of supporting my comics career. Then I got really interested in performance and I knew that was always going to be more of a hobby, but that's something I've kept doing.”
“Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.”

Source : Saul Williams (2012). “She”, p.84, Simon and Schuster
“Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book.”
“But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
“Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'”
“You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.”
“Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.”

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