"My mother tells me I do not chew my food enough; she says I am making it harder for my body to get the essential nutrients it needs. If she were here, I would remind her that I am eating a blueberry Pop-Tart."

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Source : Joe Dunthorne (2011). “Submarine”, p.193, Penguin UK

Joe Dunthorne

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“For Indigenous people, the goal for our land is definitely about protection, but it's also about use. We see ourselves as so integrated with our territory that our protection is tied to our use and our use is tied to our protection. We use the resources on our territory to live.”
“Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.”
“Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless.”
“Nothing profound ever happens in your life when you remain in your comfort zone.”
“They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.”
“God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify corruption, obtain comfort in their own mint: 'Who hath required this at your hands?' This is truly to be 'righteous over-much,' as Solomon speaks, when we will pretend to correct God's law, and add supplements of our own to his rule.”
“I believe that we are saved by the grace of God because he loves us provided that we have faith in Jesus Christ.”
“In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.”

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