"You know, my basic theory about kids: they are monsters in children ziploc suits, which they discard when they go to school each day."

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Source : Douglas Clegg (1989). “Goat Dance: A Novel of Supernatural Horror”, p.49, Alkemara Press

Douglas Clegg

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“It might be hard to believe, but the air in prison is different. There's like one thousand people sucking on the one little piece of fresh air until it turns stale.”
“It came down to the smallest things, really, that a person could do to say Iâ€™m sorry, to say itâ€™s okay, to say I forgive you. The tiniest of declarations that built, one on top of the other, until there was something solid beneath your feet. And thenâ€¦ and then. Who knew?”
“There's nobody I don't like. Maybe in six years it will be different.”
“I'll be satisfied with what I've got at the end of the season, ... If I can play every day, the numbers will come.”
“At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, 'This is crazy.' So I grew a beard.”
“How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century,”
“A temperate style is alone classical.”
“I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself."”

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