"I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it."

-- Toni Cade Bambara

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“I mean, being provincial is a privilege in a way. Also people in New York think everybody interacts because they all take the subway. "Oh, I see all these different people! All these different walks of life on the subway." Well, they're not coming to your dinner party. Certainly, in small-town Nebraska, everyone indeed did mix together.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“But in the end, I suppose, we only have one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.”

Source : Davy Rothbart (2012). “My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays”, p.333, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“...we hope to stop the transmission in six to nine months”
“I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.”
“A mind enclosed in language is in prison.”
“This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.”
“I like being on the margins. You work better there.”

Source : "The Importance of Being Childish". The Times, December 02, 2006.
“A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake. The worst type of these punks is the big politician. You can only get a little of his time because he spends so much time covering up that no one will know that he is a thief. A hard-working crook will-and can-get those birds by the dozen, but right down in his heart he won't depend on them-hates the sight of them.”

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