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“Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it, even though there was no easy way to make a living from it.”
Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
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“Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous ...”
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“Good is always a good thing.”
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“There's a boy who they call Pony! He's always acting gross and horny! He thinks he's got a lot down there, but he sure wears tiny underwear!”
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“There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.”
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“There is no doubt that constitutional freedoms will never be abolished in one fell swoop, for the American people cherish their freedoms, and would not tolerate such a loss if they could perceive it. But the erosion of freedom rarely comes as an all-out frontal assault but rather as a gradual, noxious creeping, cloaked in secrecy, and glossed over by reassurances of greater security.”
Source : "Life in the Shadows of the Empire" by Eamon Martin, www.counterpunch.org. March 18, 2006.
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“My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.”
Source : Interview with David Coggins, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.
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“There is little difference in being lost and exploring.”
Source : Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1960). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.282, Simon and Schuster