"No matter how good somebody's life looks from the outside, you can be sure there's something about it you wouldn't want to have in your life."

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Source : Jean Ferris (2009). “Twice Upon a Marigold”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jean Ferris

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“My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.”
“If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyment. Suspense drags you on; appreciation causes you to linger.”
“The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.”
“Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which she had to prepare dinners and so on. Still, for us, the fictional world was an extension of the real, and in no way a substitute for it, or refuge from it. Any more than sleeping is a substitute for waking." (Jincy Willett)”

Source : Jincy Willett (2010). “Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, and Really Bad Weather”, p.53, Macmillan
“Think of your mother and smile for all of the good precious moments.”
“Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.”
“If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice.”
“The Democratic Party does not want anybody to have a photo ID because that would have a very negative impact on cheating! If you require a photo ID, that pretty much shuts out cheating. Well, it doesn't shut it out. It just makes it harder, and that's why they don't want it.”

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