"Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on."

-- Joyce Maynard

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“Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances.”
“I've always wanted to travel. My mom was a geography queen, I knew the atlas, and I looked at her pictures of all her world travels because she traveled a lot before I was born, with my brother. I was always so jealous. I kind of chose a job that would be a way I could see the world without having to pay for it. I'm not going to be a flight attendant. I'm way too busy to be that.”

Source : "Le1f’s Riot Movement". Interview with Shayne Oliver, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.
“I have a special child and there are not a lot of services around for that special child, and so we picked out a school that would be a very good school for her.”
“You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.”
“In America, sometimes people think all Latinos can be deported, and we can't. You know, I can't be deported.”

Source : Source: www.refinery29.com
“I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.”
“Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.”
“I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do, as by the things you do.”

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