"A good writer is always a people watcher."

-- Judy Blume

“Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.”
“Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.”

Source : Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.171, Pan Macmillan
“In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.”
“Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world,”

Source : "The Rise of the Black Keys". Interview with Brian Hiatt, www.rollingstone.com. January 19, 2012.
“When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.”
“If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.”
“Everyone has their own story and thatâ€™s something I hope for everyone to learn at a young enough age. Just because something is right for someone else doesnâ€™t make it right for you. Itâ€™s cooler to be yourself.”
“Every little boy wanna pick up the mic, And try to run with the big boys and live up to the real hype. But that's like pickin up a ball, playin with Mike, Swingin at Ken Griffey or challengin' Roy to a fight.”

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