"A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself."

-- Karen Thompson Walker

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“You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.”
“To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.”
“We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.”

Source : Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.268, Northwestern University Press
“The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.”
“I don't know why I do what I do. I tend to go for the really weird, bizarre stuff. I actually have to tone it down for the show.”
“I feel like I always had a yin and yang experience with music. I've always been able to rock out, and then I've always had to take piano lessons, too.”
“Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.”
“The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise”

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