"hardly anything in L.A. was close to anywhere else you wanted to go."

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Source : Hilma Wolitzer (2013). “Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.14, Open Road Media

Hilma Wolitzer

#Los Angeles Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth”

Source : "Mumia Abu-Jamal: "The United States Is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth"". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 01, 2013.
“Old fashioned as it may seem to some, it is my duty to serve my country. (And) I didn't seek this job but I want to do it, and I will do my very best.”
“So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design”
“To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.”
“The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats.”
“The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.”
“I read a column by George Will that SCARFACE should be rated X because parents were taking their children to see it. So what? Why should the motion-picture industry be responsible for our morality? Dad says to Mom, `SCARFACE is in town.' `What's it about?' `Human scum who kill each other over cocaine deals.' `Sounds great! Let's take the kids!'”

Source : Ian Shoales (1985). “I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales”, Perigee
“Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.”

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