"If I go into a restaurant and the food sucks I feel so depressed I just want to carve it in my wrist with the butter knife."

-- Robert Sietsema

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“My sister is 4 years older than me and I've always looked up to her, she was the girl I always wanted to be.”
“[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology, that at some point you change your memory to fit who you believe you are.”
“Obviously, the opinions that are most accurate are the ones that are closest to you - your crew, your friends, your family. Those people know who you are, and that's accurate.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“What I've tried to do in politics is two very simple things: tell the truth and do what I said I would do.”
“We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future. But surely it is in times like these, when so much that we cherish is threatened or in jeopardy, that we are impelled all the more to strengthen our inner resources, to turn to the things that have no news value because they will be the same to-morrow that they were to-day and yesterday â€” the things that last, the things that the wisest, the most farseeing of our race and kind have been inspired to utter in forms that can inspire ourselves in turn.”

Source : Lecture on opening a new library at Sutton High School on September 24, 1938. "Books As Source Of Inner Strength", The Times, p. 19, September 26, 1938.
“I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.”
“The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.”
“Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.”

Source : Meg Rosoff (2007). “Just in Case”, p.85, Penguin UK

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