"My first book, 'Fast Forward', was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture of materialism and the cult of celebrity, and I've often felt the reason my work has an audience in the U.K. is because it's everything the British love to hate about the Americans."

-- Lauren Greenfield

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“Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that, on general principle, complex systems ran themselves just fine without benign intervention seemed like it could only be the product of a quasi-religious faith. ... Of course, this gets things almost precisely backwards. It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.”
“Bear ye one another's burdens, the Lord said, and he was talking law.”

Source : Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.54, Wesleyan University Press
“Would you like to hear a nice definition of jealousy? It's the feeling that you get when someone you absolutely detest is having a wonderful time without you.”

Source : William Peter Blatty (2011). “Legion”, p.292, Macmillan
“I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still.”
“I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.”
“I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.”

Source : William Hamilton Maxwell (1833). “Stories of Waterloo”, p.4
“Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in.”

Source : Lorine Niedecker (2002). “Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works”, p.218, Univ of California Press
“That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.”

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