"Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the handsome prince, travel to exotic places, and take the leap that almost always had a happy ending."

-- Teresa Mummert

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“An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.”
“The gun becomes this psychological totem, this thing of who I am. And it's almost as if using the gun is going to be the thing that's going to be my expression of how I make a difference in the world.”
“May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.”

Source : "Peering into the Looming Lenten Dark" by Scott Cairns, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2011.
“I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest.”
“You know, it's cigarettes that killed Jerry Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes.”
“Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.”
“South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.”
“Feeling a little bit alive is a lot better than just waiting to die.”

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