"The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize."

-- Robert Scheer

#Paper Quotes #Prize Quotes

“I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.”
“I've sold shoes, hawked newspapers, jerked sodas, gazed rapturously at the tinsel dream at the end of a runway from my usher's aisle in a burley-cue, drove a truck - then because I didn't like being pushed around, started pushing a pencil around.”
“You don't think much of the individual, because you don't think you've hit him and you hope that he will bail out or something; it's the aeroplane you've hit . . . normally it was more of a game if you like, you were outwitting and shooting down another aircraft, you were simply hitting metal.”
“The important thing is that when your come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.”

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“We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.”
“The freedom of cross country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature.”
“I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.”
“Gender is used as a control mechanism that's just wrong. Gender is never anything to struggle with; gender is something to play with. Once you're free of the rules that all these hierarchical, oppressive systems place on gender, that's the tricky part.”

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