"There's just something "off" about equating the act of spending three years writing a book with the act of someone exploiting themselves by drunkenly flashing the camera for "Girls Gone Wild" or something."

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Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 19, 2013.

Marie Calloway

#Girl Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.”

Source : "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James Beasley Simpson, 1988.
“A man is sometimes lost in the dust of his own raising.”
“I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.”

Source : "Somali Author Reflects on Conflict in Native Country". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. February 27, 2007.
“If turning from your sins means to stop sinning, then people can only be saved if they stop sinning. And it is unlikely that anyone has ever been saved, since we don't know anyone who has ever stopped sinning.”

Source : Curtis Hutson (2000). “Salvation Crystal Clear”, p.320, Sword of the Lord Publishers
“Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up.”
“Our planet... consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb... Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.”
“I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Why would you want to do anything else but rescue a pet?”

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