"You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness."

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Source : Peter Abrahams (2009). “End of Story”, p.4, Harper Collins

Peter Abrahams

#Good Person Quotes #Badness Quotes #Shows Quotes

“Donald Trump is a master salesman. And he creates his own reality. So if he tells you, "This is a middle-class tax cut, and I, Donald Trump, won't benefit," he expects you to believe that. It doesn't matter that it's not true. It's he said it, you're supposed to believe it. And that's how he's run his entire administration. If he says it, that makes it true.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“I hated old people as a young kid who thought he knew anything about punk rock. I just thought old people sucked and I thought their opinions sucked.”

Source : Source: substreammagazine.com
“My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.”
“I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression.”
“Stop spending your time; start investing your time.”
“I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday's eyes.”
“Moms come up to me at book signings.”
“Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.”

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