"Our mother's first gift to us comes at the moment we are born, because Mom, as she will subsequently remind us over and over, gives us the Gift of Life Like many of the gifts we receive from our mothers, the Gift of Life usually doesn't fit properly and is almost never returnable without a major hassle."

-- Linda Sunshine

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“As a Greek woman, the most important thing you can do in life is get married and have children. You could win the Nobel Prize, but if you don't have a husband and kids everyone feels bad for you because you're a failure.”

Source : "The Misadventures of Iris Smyles". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.
“Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of taste and decency, reels and reels of perversion and blasphemy that stunned my disbelieving eyes, the shocked my virginal mind, and sealed my valve.”
“The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.”

Source : Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.23
“The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky theyre going to give Cleveland State another year of probation.”
“So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.”
“I think both of us [ with Steve Oram], once we decided to do comedy, knew that we would have to come to London to do that.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“This day and your life are God's gift to you - so give thanks and be joyful always.”
“Does it seem all but incredible to you that intelligence should travel for two thousand miles, along those slender copper lines, far down in the all but fathomless Atlantic; never before penetrated â€¦ save when some foundering vessel has plunged with her hapless company to the eternal silence and darkness of the abyss? Does it seem â€¦ but a miracle â€¦ that the thoughts of living men â€¦ should burn over the cold, green bones of men and women, whose hearts, once as warm as ours, burst as the eternal gulfs closed and roared over them centuries ago?”

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