"A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen."

-- William Soutar

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“Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.”
“Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.”
“I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. We all get cranky, or impatient, or worried, or careless enough to do or say things that hurt someone else. Like it or not, that's normal. We can't blame it all on Olympia's bad energy. The important part is that we feel sorry about what we've done and make up for it. That's something Olympia never did.”

Source : Jean Ferris (2009). “Twice Upon a Marigold”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in America that, you know, somehow the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular.”

Source : "Bill Kristol's guide to falling upward" by Eric Alterman, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.
“I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.”
“Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.”
“Love to me is someone telling me, 'I want to be with you for the rest of my life, and if you needed me to I'd jump out of a plane for you.'”
“Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.”

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