"As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself."

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Source : Michael Gruber (2010). “The Good Son: A Novel”, p.93, Macmillan

#Childhood Quotes #Matter Quotes #Facts Quotes

“If the present White House leadership runs the gauntlet of common sense and the people's will for peace and challenges us by starting MX missile deployment, then the Soviet Union will respond by deploying a new intercontinental ballistic missile of the same class, with its characteristics in no way inferior to those of the MX.”

Source : "The Arms Control Reporter: A Chronicle of Treaties, Negotiations, Proposals" by Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies (U.S.), (p. 57), 1982.
“The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.”
“I learnt that music cost something, and that's a good thing. Also, that I should exercise, because I didn't and I got very sick.”
“Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who's the new Black Sabbath? They're coming, they're on the street, they're 16, 17 years old.”
“You can't walk on water until you get yourself out the boat.”
“Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.”
“I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?”
“I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to perform. I've just initiated the project. That leads the project into creating an independent label outside of game music.”

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