"[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church."

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Source : Jessica Hagedorn (2013). “Dogeaters: A Novel”, p.132, Open Road Media

Jessica Hagedorn

#Blood Quotes #Church Quotes #Dialect Quotes

“Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity.”
“If you want to use your testosterone to grow hair, that's up to you.”
“America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you -- no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.”
“Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.”
“Dialogue is easy. It's what you've been doing almost every day, most of your life.”

Source : Josip Novakovich (2008). “Fiction Writer's Workshop”, p.111, Writer's Digest Books
“There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.”
“Of course drugs were fun.”
“I've done a lot of period stuff but that's mostly because, in England, we get off on a lot of period stuff, but it's not any kind of particular choice. That's where a lot of the work is.”

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