"We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars."

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Source : David Bottoms (1980). “Shooting rats at the Bibb County Dump”, William Morrow &Company

David Bottoms

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“Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.”
“Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?”
“Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.”
“I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.”
“Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.”
“What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either is that you have to create the world that you want to exist in as an artist.”

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“The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.”
“In many ways, the ability to read is the great divide that separates the very young from everyone else. Once we've joined the conspiracy of the literate, once we've crossed over to the land of the reading, everything changes.”

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