"It is never permissible to say, I say."

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Source : "Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age" edited by Louis Klopsch, (p. 80), 1896.

Suzanne Curchod

#Egotism Quotes

“Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.”
“You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You don't boo me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The arts are not a way to make a living,”
“The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.”
“Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.”
“The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?”
“you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.”

Source : A Confederacy of Dunces (published 1980), ch.9, pt.1.
“The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level beneath herself. And she - the author - should fight always to prevent that dragging down, especially when the only possible benefit of allowing it to happen is monetary.”

Source : Caitlín R. Kiernan's blog entry (greygirlbeast.livejournal.com), January 10, 2005.

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