"But the places we come from don't leave us as easily as we leave them."

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Source : Aryn Kyle (2007). “The God of Animals: A Novel”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

Aryn Kyle

“Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he always ended up bobbing on the surface. His inaugural speech was like being present at the death of language ...”
“A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.”
“In between shooting for Awake, I was attempting to have my own pilot season. The audition for Anger Management actually came during a week that I was already testing for a couple other shows and we werent really letting any other shows into the mix.”

Source : "Daniela Bobadilla Talks ANGER MANAGEMENT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 20, 2012.
“Come close to me baby. Let your love hold you. I know this world is crazy, but what's it without you?”
“They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.”

Source : Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.
“Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.”
“I don't t drink coffee, but I'm a tea addict.”

Source : "Toks Olagundoye of 'The Neighbors': 23 Things You Don't Know". ABC Interview, abcnews.go.com. September 20, 2013.
“I played with English and Sociology in college but dropped out to work in the anti-war movement. I was going around denouncing the Viet Nam war as immoral but one day it dawned on me that I didn't know what that meant. I signed up for an ethics class at San Francisco State to find out the answer.”

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