"I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us."

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Source : "The Curiously Irresistible Literary Debut of Mark Haddon". PowellsBooks Interview, www.powells.com. October 10, 2006.

Mark Haddon

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“Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.”

Source : "Glamour's January Cover Star Claire Danes on Why She's Happier in Her 30s" by Logan Hill, www.glamour.com. December 3, 2013.
“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.”
“Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.”

Source : 2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 30 August 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York
“Never become so involved with something that it blinds you. Never forget where you from; someone will remind you.”
“You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.”

Source : Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.165, Rodale
“No one knows ish about ish, though some ish does get much closer to the real ish.”

Source : Linh Dinh (2017). “Postcards from the End of America”, p.41, Seven Stories Press
“When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.”
“[Ruslan] Provodnikov has a totally different style than Manny Pacquiao and that's what training camp is all about and that's why I stay in shape year round, so I can work on strategy in camp instead of getting in shape.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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