"I know that I havenâ€™t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates."

-- Tillie Olsen

“Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.”

Source : Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.70, Penguin
“All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them as well.”
“Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.”
“This is it. It's for all the marbles. I'm sitting in the house loading up the pump, I'm loading up the Uzis, I've got a couple of M-16s, couple of nines, couple of joints with some silencers on them, couple of grenades, got a missile launcher. I'm ready for war.”
“The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of physics has there been witnessed such a period of intense activity when discoveries of fundamental importance have followed one another with such bewildering rapidity.”
“Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.”
“As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth.”

Source : "MEN Reader Meets Trinny and Susannah". Interview with Helen Tither, www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. February 15, 2007.
“I tried to play bass in a punk band once, and it was an absolute disaster. I canâ€™t play anything. I donâ€™t know what it is.”

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