"I plan my life in 15-minute sections."

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Dave Pelzer

#Minutes Quotes #Plans Quotes

“I think the people who work with me are people who love style themselves. I'm leaving the office and they're still working. They're passionate.”
“A guy walks into a bar, orders a drink, sees a girl that catches his eye. Asks her if she wants another, they fall for each other and end up lovers. They laugh, cry, hold on tight and make it work for a little while, then one night her taillights fade out into the dark. And a guy walks into a bar”
“What's the point of getting killed if you've got the wrong exposure?”
“Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.”
“Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side â€” wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.”
“Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.”
“The day will come, sooner or later, when people will wonder at the necessity of taking all this trouble to expose the folly of a system, so childish and absurd, and yet so often enforced at the point of a bayonet.”
“Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind of a free market?”

Source : "Dwayne’s World" by Dan Carney, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1995.

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