"I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood."

-- Jack Prelutsky

#Childhood Quotes

“To carry on war, three things are necessary: money, money, and yet more money.”
“Most of the verses written about praise in Godâ€™s Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.”
“Will," she said softly, sleepily. "Last night--" You were kind to me, she was going to say. Thank you. The glare from his blue eyes stabbed through her. "There was no last night," he said through his teeth. At that, she sat up straight, almost awake. "Oh, truly? We just went right from one afternoon on through till the next morning? How odd no one else remarked on it. I should think it some miracle, a day with no night--”
“[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone.”
“Just looking at each other is something really moving to me, more so than the nudity.”
“Freud was just a novelist.”

Source : "The Big Life" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2005.
“I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high school teaching - and I do enjoy it, at least sometimes. But I find it incredibly anxiety-producing and exhausting. Privacy is more congenial, and I go a little crazy if I can't spend a big chunk of every day, or almost every day, alone. Certainly I have to be alone to write.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey thats slowing everybody else down... not for a while, at least.”

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