"Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?"

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Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.210, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Wendelin Van Draanen

#Left Alone Quotes

“Debt is not caused by spending, it is caused by buying things that you don't pay for. Or, it's caused by cutting revenues that you don't offset ... by cuts in spending.”
“...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.”
“I have this theory that if you do a film, those who have not fallen asleep or left the cinema, they will live with the film much longer, and it will really enter their imagination and the subconscious much more profoundly.”
“To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.”

Source : Jessie Redmon Fauset, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson (1933). “Comedy, American Style”
“You don't need to know HOW the universe is going to rearrange itself.”
“I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.”
“The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.”
“Understand two thoughts, and fear them. One says, "You are a saint," the other, "You won't be saved." Both of these thoughts are from the enemy, and there is no truth in them. But think this way: I am a great sinner, but the Lord is merciful. He loves people very much, and He will forgive my sins.”

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