"Even though she saw tattoos everywhere, they continued to fascinate her. How bizarre to be branded like a box of cereal. Didn't people mind being counted as just one more product on a shelf? There had to be more to a person than that."

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Source : Suzanne Weyn (2012). “The Bar Code Tattoo”, p.6, Scholastic Inc.

Suzanne Weyn

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“Just watching people who come from a stand-up background is different from watching people who come from an improv or sketch background.”
“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
“A great acacia, with its slender trunk And overpoise of multitudinous leaves. (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew And intense verdure, yet find room enough) Stood reconciling all the place with green.”
“We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.”
“I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.”
“The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.”
“Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling”
“Life was wonderful, so filled with people and activities, with love and laughter.”

Source : Judith McNaught (2016). “Remember When”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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