"Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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“Rambunctious and delinquent dogs become angelic when sitting.”
“I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.”
“The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.”

Source : Said in 1936. Prologue to "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz, 1993.
“Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.”
“My first decade of living in a metropolis was like, I was a people watcher. It meant the world to me to talk to strangers. I got excited about the fifth time I'd see the same person in the same bodega. I loved getting to know a certain clerk or barista. It took on a whole big meaning for me because of that atomization that suburban people do start to feel.”

Source : "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.
“If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there?”
“The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.”
“We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it.”

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