"Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children."

-- Shirley Jackson

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“I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.”
“I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.”
“Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, ***** on the board and then struts around like it won the game.”
“If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just an insignificant creature in the whole wide world, which is full of six billion people, and that people are born and die every day and it makes no difference to future generations what you write, and that writing and reading are increasingly irrelevant activities, you'd probably never get out of bed.”
“All you Jews can go straight to hell.”
“To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.”
“I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.”

Source : Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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