"My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted."

-- Yancy Butler

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“I have this philosophy that A and B students work for C students.”
“It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.”

Source : Alice Morse Earle (2012). “Child Life in Colonial Times”, p.3, Courier Corporation
“Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.”

Source : "Ongoingness: The End of a Diary". Book by Sarah Manguso, March 03, 2015.
“I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I think I've been afraid most of my life to be myself.”
“I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.”
“All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”
“And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt - this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight.”

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