"I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing."

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Source : "'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' author Maria Semple talks about her new book". Interview with Molly Driscoll, www.csmonitor.com. Ocotber 3, 2012.

Maria Semple

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“Love is an ugly, terrible business practiced by fools. Itâ€™ll trample your heart and leave you bleeding on the floor. And what does it really get you in the end? Nothing but a few incredible memories that you canâ€™t ever shake. The truth is, thereâ€™s gonna be other girls out there. I mean, I hope. But Iâ€™m never gonna get another first love. That one is always gonna be her.”

Source : "Little Manhattan". www.imdb.com. 2005.
“Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.”
“The earth was blue but there was no god.”
“God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.”
“I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.”

Source : Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage
“Without a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful President.”
“All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists”

Source : "Terrence Dashon Howard: A rising star". Interview with Jason Zingale, www.bullz-eye.com. August 5, 2005.
“Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.”

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