"There is no lake at Camp Green Lake."

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Source : Louis Sachar (2007). “There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom: Rejacketed”, p.198, A&C Black

Louis Sachar

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“It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.”
“The sense of loss of control over what happens to you at work (and thus in your life is vital). This further involves a sense of fairness as in, I did my part and look where it got me! "The deal," the contract between employee and employer has eroded and been replaced with unilateral power by the organization over the employee.”
“I'm an impatient guy and tend not to like to stay with one thing for a long time. I'll never be able to write as many scripts as I did for "Felicity" or "Alias" ever again. I'm just too impatient these days. I want to get on to the next project.”
“I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.”
“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.”
“In terms of fashion, I think the biggest influence that I had was my father. My pops, he was really into men's fashion and read all of the magazines.”
“My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30 miles per hour for 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour. Current events show this is not at all an ambitious project. Want of an elementary knowledge of oil machines baulks me and causes much misdirected effort. I doubt my ability to acquire that knowledge, and feel like a fireman trying to hew out a donkey pump...”
“How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.”

Source : Colleen McCullough (1977). “The Thorn Birds”

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