"When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink."

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Jack Gantos

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“Before a community can prosper, the people must believe in their leaders. They must know that at the core of every decision is careful planning, hard work, and unbending integrity rather than partisanship or self-gain. They must trust that the awesome power of government is not being abused.”
“Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife”

Source : Joaquin Miller (1872). “Joaquin: Et Al”, p.49
“Some people say, â€œNever let them see you cry.â€ I say, if youâ€™re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”
“There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads and the pictures were so vivid.”
“This person called up and said, You've got to come and take this seminar. It will completely change your life in just one weekend. And I said, Well, I don't want to completely change my life this weekend. I've got a lot of things to do on Monday.”
“This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. Iâ€™m into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.”

Source : C L R James (2001). “The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution”, p.445, Penguin UK
“Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.”

Source : Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). “Course in General Linguistics”, p.74, Columbia University Press

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