"In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times."

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Source : Esmeralda Santiago (2012). “Almost a Woman: A Memoir”, p.6, Da Capo Press

Esmeralda Santiago

#Mother Quotes #Years Quotes #Twenties Quotes

“All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.”
“I really can't tell other people how to live their life or how to approach different things. What I can tell them - and I truly believe this, I don't think it's being naÃ¯ve and I don't think it's being in denial - I really believe that the way you think influences the way you feel, and the way you feel influences the way you act.”

Source : Source: www.menshealth.com
“I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.”
“I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.”
“I've always been very tied to language.”
“Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country.”
“When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.”

Source : William Styron (2015). “My Generation: Collected Nonfiction”, p.397, Random House
“There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join”

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