"I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race."

-- Mary Docter

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“I feel like I should be able to be 18 and have the friends that I choose and to have fun and live my life.”
“After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.”
“An Italian proverb says, In men every mortal sin is venial; in woman every venial sin is mortal. And a German axiom, that There are only two good women in the world: one of them is dead, and the other is not to be found.”
“When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.”
“Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.”
“Yes, this world is truly terrible, which is why the pure and the holy come bravely forward: They have decided to eradicate the sins of the world. They want to standardize people, keep them in order, keep them in place under their own rear ends. They are the reason I have had to die a hundred times.”

Source : Xianliang Zhang, Martha Avery (1991). “Getting used to dying: a novel”, HarperCollins Publishers
“We're all pretty ordinary on paper.”
“All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.”

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