"I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life."

-- Marianne Wiggins

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“There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?”
“In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.”
“Once Donald Trump announced that Betsy DeVos was going to be his Education Secretary - a few months before I finished the manuscript - I had a pretty good idea of what was going to happen. He was going to overturn as much of what Barack Obama did, and the attendant social progress, as he could.”
“The truth is, you leave this world with nothing. What you are is a temporary administrator, and you must administer well... the wealth in your care, and generate more. The surplus can be used to do many things for people.”
“When you don't have love, it is like there's a party going on and everybody was invited except for you ... and you just happen to walk by that house in the rain”
“My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.”

Source : "VIDEO: Randy Quaid: Evi and I 'Cannot Function'" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 5, 2010.
“I have accepted myself in a world that does not accept me, because I have learned - and more than any of the lessons of my accident, this is the one I wish I could teach everybody - that our hearts matter most. Your heart matters most, so be gentler and more patient with yourself, and their hearts matter most, too, so be kinder and more compassionate to others. It's a beautiful heart, not a perfect body, that leads to a beautiful life.”
“I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.”

Source : "You Can’t Ruffle Sandra Lee". Interview by Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. March 23, 2012.

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