"Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat."

-- Alice Walker

#Kids Quotes #Facts Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.”
“All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.”
“Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.”
“The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat”
“Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.”
“No one can stand in the way of your personal greatness”
“If you could read some of the stories that we had before us of parents of children dying of, let's say, bone cancer. Or people who dealt with family members drowning in their own bodies, in the end, suffering without any hope of modern medical science easing their pain or offering any comfort. With the absolute knowledge that they were going to die anyway. I can't quite comprehend how we could want those people to continue to suffer that extreme agony on the understanding that it is the will of a creator or some other philosophical concept.”

Source : "Grappling with the hardest questions on assisted dying". Interview with John Geddes, www.macleans.ca. February 25, 2016.
“When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting into their truth and to justify what they do.”

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