"Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty."

-- Lionel Shriver

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“Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.”

Source : Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.70, Penguin
“Maximum Rocknroll didn't have a map section. How was I supposed to know that Berkeley was not a neighborhood of San Francisco?”
“For many people a job is more than an income - it's an important part of who we are.”
“You have to be a model and multifaceted, but there's not a lot of ways for a model to be multifaceted because the actresses took all the covers.”
“If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.”
“'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'”
“I guess if there was a desert island scenario and I only could take one font with me, I guess it would be Helvetica, though it has it's limitations, I think it's incredibly versatile and gets the job done and I also think it's one of the typefaces that will really survive the test of time beyond the next several decades if not into the next century.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.
“The biggest thing I learned was that the harder you work for the thing that you love the most, then everything that you want is going to come true.”

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