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“So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to them as straight.”
Source : Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.275, Simon and Schuster
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“I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.”
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“Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality and real human needs.”
Source : Arthur Evans (1978). “Witchcraft and the Gay counterculture: a radical view of Western civilization and some of the people it has tried to destroy”, Bookpeople
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“... it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.”
Source : "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.
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“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
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“Not only should we observe moderation with food, but we must also abstain from every other sin so that just as we fast with our stomach, we should fast with our tongue. Likewise, we should fast with our eyes; i.e. not look at agitating things, not allow your eyes freedom to roam, not to look shamelessly and without fear. Similarly, arms and legs should be restrained from doing any evil acts.”
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“I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.”
Source : "Daniel Radcliffe Talks Broadway, Post -'Harry Potter' Life" by Eric Ditzian, www.mtv.com. March 14, 2011.
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“An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you have to drop little hints along the way. With the outline, I always know where the story is going. So before I ever write, I prepare an outline of 40 or 50 pages.”