"Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature."

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Source : James Tiptree Jr.'s letter, quoted in Julie Phillips "James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon", 2006.

James Tiptree Jr.

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“My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB.”
“We are squandering our wealth in many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom.”
“Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp.”
“Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great.”

Source : "It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be". Book by Paul Arden, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2003.
“I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.”
“Every woman is a rebel.”
“No matter what does, or doesn't, happen for me in the music industry, getting to play the Opry as a kid was always be a highlight of mine.”
“There are moments, moments of fun but it's never necessarily a wink/wink. It's just interesting and odd and crazy things happen inside the world just like a crazy thing happened inside our world. So we don't shy away from that stuff. We take semi-ordinary characters, even though they have their own skill sets, we take those guys and we drop them into extraordinary situations and watch how the get out of them.”

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