"I have very strict rules in my head that seem to me to be the way things should sound."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Ann Goldstein

“Could a father not marry his son?”
“If you took away music, I wouldnt have a reason to live.”
“I don't think we can say that all working women will get divorced - it's so dangerous to make these things emblematic of anything - but having said that, every person who has a big, important job and tries to have a family, has to make decisions every single minute.”
“Our political system encourages that. We don't have proportional representation. There's little renewal in our political class and it's always the same faces. There's also a lack of morals - it's one affair after the other. A system like that cannot be successful.”
“You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.
“Momma was home. She was the most totally human, human being that I have ever known, and so very beautiful. Within our home, she was an abundance of love, discipline, fun, affection, strength, tenderness, encouragement, understanding, inspiration, support.”
“For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.”
“Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.”

Source : Bette Midler (1980). “A View from a Broad”, Simon & Schuster

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