"Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write."

-- Michael Cunningham

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“I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.”
“And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick, he filled a notebook with his thoughts about meâ€¦ There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug. But too late. But that's when I take out his letters and I read them, and the paper that touched his hand is in mine, and I feel connected to him.”
“A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing”
“I find that things don't bother me as much. If I had a bad day on set, it sort of just rolls of my back in a way that it didn't before. So that's where the biggest difference is, stuff that used to get under my skin or that I would worry about or be anxious about just isn't a problem. So in some ways, having a child has been very liberating. I found it very liberating.”
“How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.”
“To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.”

Source : Michael Dorris (1994). “Paper trail: essays”, Harpercollins
“It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.”

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