"What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her pupils he would have emerged, bewildered and blinking, on the far side of the earth. Was he awed by her? Absolutely. Did he respect her? Unequivocally. Want to be anything like her? No, never, not at all."

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Anthony Marra

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“Even if you do no work that is particularly lofty or far-reaching, if you can shed mundane feelings, that is a great achievement. Even if you do not strive much for progress in learning, if you can minimize the influence things have on you, you will soar into the realm of sages.”
“His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.”
“A woman isn't as old as she thinks she is. She's as old as men think she is.”

Source : Billie Burke, Cameron Shipp (2016). “With Powder on My Nose”, p.177, Pickle Partners Publishing
“As one who was never terribly enamored of Hillary Clinton's personality to start with, I grudgingly admit to enjoying her recent near-tears transformation. Plenty of critics concede her rarely seen emotion was heartfelt, but also that it was due to the 20-hour-day rigors of the campaign trail, making her perhaps the only candidate ever to win the New Hampshire primary because she needed a nap. Still, it was refreshing to watch her punch through the icy crust of her own phoniness, so that the molten core of artificiality could gush forth.”

Source : "Making Political Trouble". www.weeklystandard.com. January 28, 2008.
“I've always thought that Boathouse Row looked best at night, when hundreds of electric lights outline the shape of each building, truning them into fantastic postcard themes. I knew, however, from many visits to Boathouse Row, that at the same time, armies of rats were holding maneuvers in the basements.”
“Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.”

Source : "Sophie Thompson: 'I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I'd find the funny bits'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.
“I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Goldilocks [There] lived a family of bearstogether anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this, of course, since the nuclear family has traditionally served to enslave womyn, instill a self-righteous moralism in its members, and imprint rigid notions of heterosexualist roles onto the next generation. [They named] their offspring the non-gender-specific "Baby.”

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