"A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?"

-- Jeanette Winterson

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“I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely rejected. I just don't see it as an idiomatic thing any more...To me, if jazz is anything, it's a process, and maybe a verb, but it's not a thing. It's a form that demands that you bring to it things athat are valuable to you, that are personal to you. That, for me, is a pretty serious distinction that doesn't have anything to do with blues, or swing, or any of these other things that tend to be listed as essentials in order for music to be jazz with a capital J.”
“The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.”
“I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.”
“You can't get a body like mine in a bottle unless you push real hard.”
“People always say, "When did you know you were funny?" They don't mean that in a bad way - this already makes me sound like such a jerk.”
“I have always loved fashion, but I have no expertise in it besides being a model.”
“I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him.”
“It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.”

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