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“Whitney Houston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You†was constantly on my FM Walkman radio around that time. I think that made me cry because I associated it with absolutely no one.”
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“Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of "I's," and a listening audience somehow turns each "I" into a "me." This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.”
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“Perhaps we wouldn't eat so much, or smoke, or drink so much if we were paying attention to ourselves. Perhaps we wouldn't talk so much if we were paying attention to each other. All these oral activities are trying to meet a need, and perhaps the greatest need is to be seen and heard.”
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“Punctuation, is? fun!”
Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.”
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“I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“We grow small trying to be great.”
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“I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com