"It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding."

-- Karen Joy Fowler

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“I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.”
“For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.”
“Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.”

Source : Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.32, Vintage
“The least Anararchic person in that conversation is the person saying 'you can't be an anarchist if you believe in god.' Because that's not an argument, it's just a statement. Why would somebody accept that? Because they either bow to your authority or they are afraid of your aggression. That's threatening to be another kind of ruler. Does that make any sense?”
“Gansey had no idea how old Blue was. He knew she'd just finished eleventh grade. Maybe she was sixteen. Maybe she was eighteen. Maybe she was twenty-two and just very short and remedial.”
“Wine pricing is an art - like painting.”
“When I'm in the studio I just try to zone out and not think of whatever is in the industry, if it sounds too much like someone else, I have a tendency to erase it.”

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