"She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them."

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Source : Sue Townsend (2012). “The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year”, p.244, Penguin UK

Sue Townsend

“Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground... there shouldn't be any 'ideas' visible.”
“But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.”
“The Universe is making music all the time.”
“Looks do count. Deliver visually stunning merchandising. Engage at the point of sale. Help consumers shop with their eyes.”
“There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now”
“My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.”
“The only way you can be universal is to be sure you are very specifically local.”
“The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.”

Source : John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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