"My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it."

-- Elizabeth Strout

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“I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.”
“I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.”

Source : "GG Allin, The First Amendment, And The Law". Interview with Joe Coughlin, www.grayarea.com. December 1992.
“Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.”
“Love is the answer. Now, what is your question?”
“It happens to us quite often-it feels as though I'm not playing my instrument, something else is playing it and that same thing is playing all three of our instruments. That's what I mean when I say it's frightening sometimes. Maybe we'll all play the same phrase out of nowhere. It happens very often with us.”
“In a fashion similar to the leftist occupiers on Wall Street, their antics would be the target of rabid moral indignation on the front pages of the New York times and Washington Post and on the lead stories of every cable news show.”
“Is it alright to believe in the future where everyone can live in happiness?”
“It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher and more lasting values will show more marked progress while the evil in him recedes into the background. Knowing that material and spiritual progress are essen- tial to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both. Only then shall we be able to acquire that absolute inner calm so necessary to our well-being.”

Source : The Voice of Ethiopia, April 5, 1948.

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