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“I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.”
Source : 'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 18
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“None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing classes they were. And I enjoyed those more anyway.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.”
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“There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.”
Source : Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.389, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“I see the horrible way some stars deal with other people, and I don't know how they get away with it. Maybe it comes back to them in a different karma.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes".
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“And I wanted to do a movie [Moonrise Kingdom] about a childhood romance - a very powerful experience of childhood romance. About what it's like to just be blindsided, when you're in fifth grade or sixth grade, by these kinds of feelings. Along the way, I sort of mixed in some interest in "young adult fantasy" writing.”
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“Opportunities will often come at the unlikeliest of times. Sometimes they're because of instant connections.”
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“But it is a fallacy, if one is examining the methods by which security can be attained, to start upon the assumption, as so many hon. Members do, that we get security by an increase of air armaments or an increase of any other form of armaments.”
Source : Stafford Cripps's Speech in the House of Commons opposing the National Government's decision to expand the Royal Air Force, api.parliament.uk. July 30, 1934. 
