"Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks."

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Source : Jean Rhys (1975). “My Day: Three Pieces”

Jean Rhys

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“I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.”
“The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so inured to its presence that they could not conÂceive of society without it. Within the history of the United States the system of slavery immediately comes to mind.”

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“Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?”
“On Stranger Than Fiction, the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.”
“We invest in early childhood education. We invest additional job training dollars. We make sure that we've got a strong research and development strategy so that we continue to innovate. Rebuilding our infrastructure, which we know will attract businesses.”
“If I wanted to own some Jack Kirby original art unless it was something that Giacoia or Sinnott had inked I was too close to it. I didn't want to collect his pages inked by me. Of course 40 years later I'd LOVE to have some of that stuff.”
“I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community.”
“Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.”

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