"But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did."

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Source : Meg Wolitzer (2011). “The Uncoupling: A Novel”, p.21, Penguin

Meg Wolitzer

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“The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties.”
“Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.”
“But will I always love her? Does my love for her reside in my head or my heart? The scientist in her believed that emotion resulted from complex limbic brain circuitry that was for her, at this very moment, trapped in the trenches of a battle in which there would be no survivors. The mother in her believed that the love she hadd for her daughter was safe from the mayhem in her mind, because it lived in her heart.”

Source : Lisa Genova (2010). “Still Alice”, p.172, Simon and Schuster
“When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.”
“It's not that I don't want to, it's just that there's no money in it. By that I mean the way the video business works now, the artist and the record label send out a song to a bunch of different directors and say, 'What would you do with this?' Then everyone has to come up with an idea and bid on it. For me, it's like, 'Hey, you want me to do it? Then pay me. I'm not auditioning for you.'”
“Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.”
“Everyone is broken a little, I think, and the most broken of all are those who pretend they are not.”
“I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.”

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