"I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times."

-- Alison Bechdel

“I don't want to be looked at. I really want to be a home body.”
“Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature”

Source : "A Start in Life". Book by Anita Brookner, 1981.
“We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.”
“Tell me why the limousine fleet has increased by 42 percent since Barack Obama took office. Why are we spending taxpayers' money on that? Limos should be for weddings and proms, certainly not for government officials to be riding around in.”
“Steven and I stood on the stage at the Boston Garden after the Stones had just played there and the stage was still up. We had been playing cards, maybe a high-school dance, to 400 or 500, maybe a thousand. We just stood on the stage and thought, 'Well,man,maybe someday.' In 4 years that was OUR stage.”
“Life is very tough. If you don't laugh, it's tough.”
“I, like most people, came out to Hollywood to get into movies.”
“The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.”

Source : "On Juche in Our Revolution". Book by Kim Il-sung, Volume 2, 1977.

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