"I was so excited to be able to say that I was a lesbian that I would shake hands with strangers on the street and say, 'Hi! I'm Sally Gearhart and I'm a lesbian.' Once, appearing on a panel program, I began, 'I'm Sally Lesbian and I'm a gearhart!' I realized then that I had put too much of my identity into being lesbian."

-- Sally Miller Gearhart

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“I would love to go back as Leela in this new series.”
“A Chinese paleontologist lectures around the world saying that recent fossil finds in his country are inconsistent with the Darwinian theory of evolution. His reason: The major animal groups appear abruptly in the rocks over a relatively short time, rather than evolving gradually from a common ancestor as Darwin's theory predicts. When this conclusion upsets American scientists, he wryly comments: "In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you can criticize the government but not Darwin."”
“The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.”
“All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.”
“If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.”
“No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana...”

Source : Kiran Desai (2007). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“What he said was: "You obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do a disservice by putting it anywhere." And boy was that good advice. Because what he said was, you obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do them a disservice by putting it anywhere.”
“The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.”

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