"So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live."

-- Ned Vizzini

“New York City is the most important location in the world... it is the center for fashion, culture and finance.”
“Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.”
“My argument is focused on the fact that a relatively small percentage of the world's Muslim countries are impacted by this order. Stated differently, this executive order is a singularly ineffective - in legal parlance, it would be called under-inclusive - form of a Muslim ban.”

Source : "Is President Trump’s executive order constitutional?". Interview with James Downie, www.washingtonpost.com. February 6, 2017.
“If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.”
“I have a history, a long history of being stereotyped as a five-foot-two woman, which is very limiting. I've worked so hard to create characters that have dignity. And I think everybody knows that I have a very pro-woman message in my work - and in my life.”
“Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!”
“The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.”
“It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.”

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