"Who is Alice?" asked mother. "Alice is somebody that nobody can see," said Frances. "And that is why she does not have a birthday. So I am singing Happy Thursday to her." - Frances the badger"

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Russell Hoban

#Mother Quotes #Singing Quotes #Thursday Quotes

“I donâ€™t like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with -- thatâ€™s the way I was raised -- but I just canâ€™t see whatâ€™s so wrong about being gay.”
“My biggest concern is security and keeping Londoners safe.”
“Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security, predictability, control. These, too, are nets. Above all, resist the fear of failure. Yes, you will make mistakes. But they will be your mistakes, not someone else's. And you will survive them, and you will know yourself better for having made them, and you will be a fuller and a stronger person.”

Source : "What Are You Going to Do With That?". Essay adapted from a talk delivered to a freshman class at Stanford University in May 2010, www.chronicle.com. October 03, 2010.
“If I feel like I'm going too far in one direction, I just can it. It's a weird thing. Some of my songs might be cheesy; I try and keep it light. It's hard to explain.”
“Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Love is the outlaw's duty.”

Source : Jayne Anne Phillips (2011). “Black Tickets: Stories”, p.262, Vintage
“An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.”
“As long as I'm in this city, I'm a lightning rod, ... People don't like me for a lot of reasons and I create all of them. I love it when they hate me. All my closest friends hate me.”

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