"Except I didn't say eff"

-- Patrick Ness

“I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do...”
“I was never trying to be the voice for anybody else. I was just trying to sing about what I was going through, and was singing about those things specifically because I knew there was an audience not being served.”
“Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .”
“Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.”
“Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life”
“If I must die, then I will die boldly, as I have lived.”
“The good guy only gets the girl in a soppy way.”
“Not many women got to live out the daydream of womenâ€”to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.”

Source : Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.69, Vintage

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