"Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference"

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Wally Lamb

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“I desperately want children. I want like four of them. But I will never have them, I mean at least with the current circumstances, living with my boyfriend.”
“Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?”
“With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.”
“I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme. I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call. But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.”
“America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.”
“The most important man in my life is and always will be Alain Delon. He is always there when I need a shoulder to cry on… even today Alain is the only man I can count on. He would always help me. Only Alain shaped me as a woman. Even though he hurt me a lot when he left me I also matured because of it.”
“So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live.”
“My mum always says work goes in waves: you have a good spell and then it dips.”

Source : "Hoult... who goes there?". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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