"From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old."

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Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

Joan Larkin

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I'm a Frisbeetarian. We worship frisbees. We believe when you die your soul goes up on the roof and you can't get it down.”
“Moving to a cooperatively organized enterprise is one of the best ways to really do something about unequal distribution of wealth.”

Source : "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.
“I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.”

Source : "Glee Star Secrets!". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. April 26, 2012.
“You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?”
“There is scarcely a town or school in Russia from which boys have not run away to the war. Hundreds of girls have gone off in boys' clothes and tried to pass themselves off as boys and enlist as volunteers, and several have got through, since the medical examination is only a negligible formality required in one place, forgotten in another.”

Source : Stephen Graham (1915). “Russia in 1916”
“The ego does not want to be wrong, ever.”
“And I call Saks Fifth Ave-y home. That is where a real bad Barbie roam.”
“I don't see the point in being a star - it takes a lot of energy to carry yourself off as being more perfect than somebody else. I'd rather just be available with all my weaknesses.”

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