"That's what a story must feel like to me. It's not, "I want to write about a gravedigger." But you're walking along and - boop! shovel. "Ok, what does one do with a shovel? Digs a hole. Why? I don't know yet. Dig the hole! Oh, look a body.""

-- George Saunders

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“I think it is great to unite all kickboxing styles under one set of rules.”

Source : Interview with Alireza Fadaie, bleacherreport.com. February 25, 2010.
“Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be â€˜wrongâ€™, which is what our education encourages us to believe.”

Source : Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.80, Routledge
“You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”
“It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.”
“Keep your children as much as may be from ill company, especially of ungodly playfellows. It is one of the greatest dangers for the undoing of children in the world; especially when they are sent to common schools: for there is scarce any of those schools so good, but hath many rude and ungodly ill-taught children in it.”
“I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.”
“My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of 'public domain' and something to be made money on. There's no sense of self there, I'm sure of it.”

Source : "Genie Francis Promises to Deliver Another Emotional Note". Interview with Matt Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. January 30, 2009.
“Mazur was a remarkable artist. During our time in Rome we became friends. I would often perform my works for him at the piano.”

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