"Kids across the country have grown up accepting the idea that no one can harm your family if at least one of its adult members is in the shower. No one knows why."

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Source : Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.62, Portobello Books

Sloane Crosley

#Country Quotes #Kids Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations.”
“Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns.”
“I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.”

Source : "Subjects That Interest Most People". Interview with Amy Feltman, logger.believermag.com. July 20, 2015.
“Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should eliminate the extraneous, prioritize our desires, and accept less than the moon.”

Source : Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper
“Life as a voice actress is tough. It's not an easy career.”
“You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God."”
“The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.”
“As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.”

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