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Jack Gantos

"It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others."

Source : Jack Gantos (2011). “Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key”, p.34, Macmillan

Jack Gantos

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“What interests me, ... is why people are so repelled when, after all, everyone started life attached. In a sense, the twins have never been born because they are still tied by an umbilical cord. Relationships between women - daughters, mothers, friends - are one of my strong interests.”
“The cooking side is the easier way to be creative. On the policy side, it's harder to think of new approaches to problems.”
“I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell”

Source : Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.82, Golgotha Press
“It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.”
“Both the poet and scholar are trying to learn something. The poem for me is a pursuit. Some of the answers are within. Some of the answers are without.”

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“Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.”
“To all of you I should like to say that in the course of this war you will have to acquire the experience and achieve the success which alone can build up a national tradition for our Army. An army that has no tradition of courage, fearlessness and invincibility cannot hold its own in a struggle with a powerful enemy.”

Source : Subhas Chandra Bose (1946). “On to Delhi: 23 enthralling speeches”
“Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.”

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