"I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either."

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Source : Karen Joy Fowler (2013). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: A Novel”, p.189, Penguin

Karen Joy Fowler

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“I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah,”

Source : "Lupe Ontiveros Proudly Portrayed Dozens Of Maids". Interview With Neda Ulaby, www.npr.org. July 27, 2012.
“I think you just have to have some rapport with the song.”
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
“The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isnt really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.”

Source : "Sci-fi 'gothic' architecture brought to life" by Laura Allsop, www.cnn.com. April 8, 2011.
“I guess I like to find the rhythm in things.”
“A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.”
“the Egyptians became fond of wine and bibulous; and so a way was found among them to help those who could not afford wine, namely, to drink that made from barley; they who took it were so elated that they sang, danced, and acted in every way like persons filled with wine.”

Source : Athenaeus (of Naucratis.), Charles Burton Gulick (1969). “The Deipnosophists”, Harvard Univ Pr
“All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service.”

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