"I'm sort of like a maniac, and I can't get out of it."

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Source : "Buffalo boy" by Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.

“Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.”
“Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar.”
“Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.”
“Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information.”
“We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.”
“From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.”
“Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.”
“A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.”

Source : Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.115, Vintage

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