"If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time."

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Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Daniel Keyes

“Where are the leaders who can speak to the idea that it is not alien to American interests, but very much in our socioeconomic interests - not to mention our spiritual health - to integrate immigrants, that our nation functions best when we welcome newcomers and help them participate fully in our society?”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
“Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter.”
“Meaning lies in the magic of the coincidence that you should come across work at just the right time.”
“You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's paintings, great paintings. There's a lot of speed in his work and the speed produces things that only speed can produce.”
“Whoever prays twelve rakats during the night and day, a house will be built for him in paradise. Four before dhuhr, and two after, two rakats after maghrib, two rakats after ishaa, and two rakats before fajr prayer.”
“A Satanist practices the motto, If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other! Let no wrong go unredressed.”
“I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.”
“There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.”

Source : Faith Baldwin (1934). “Honor bound”

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