"The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me."

-- Theodora Goss

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“Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?”

Source : "You Might Be a Redneck If". Book by Jeff Foxworthy, 1993.
“To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.”
“God don't like complaints.”
“The ancients were destitute of many of the conveniences of life which have been invented or improved by the progress of industry; and the plenty of glass and linen has diffused more real comforts among the modern nations of Europe than the senators of Rome could derive from all the refinements of pompous or sensual luxury.”
“I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows.... glorious in autumn, a fountain of coolness in summer, sugar in its veins, gold in its foliage, warmth in its fibers, and health in it the year round.”
“Our little solos are a note in an immense chorus vibrating grandly through the universe, a chorus which accepts and harmonizes the whir of the cricket and the long drum-roll of the stars.”

Source : Harriet Monroe (1938). “A poet's life: seventy years in a changing world”, Macmillan
“Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”
“If you come across illegal aliens committing crimes, other crimes, you deport them.”

Source : "Al Punto" with Jorge Ramos, www.univision.com. January 28, 2016.

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