"I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good."

-- Sara Sheridan

#Summer Quotes #Writing Quotes #Long Quotes

“Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.”
“All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined.”
“I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought I simply had to accept the fact that I was ugly, and that to feel despair about it was simply wrong.”

Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I don't hafta take his sass”
“(Harry Reid) was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama - a 'light-skinned' African American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
“Insanity is catching.”
“Shane, in case we donâ€™t â€¦ donâ€™t come out of this, I wanted to sayâ€¦â€ He glanced over at her, and she felt her whole body warm from it. She remembered that look. It made her feel naked inside and out, but not in a creepy kind of way. In a way that feltâ€¦. Free. â€œIf what you say is true, and I guess it has to be, I think I know why weâ€™re â€¦ together,â€ he said. â€œI think Iâ€™d fall for you no matter what, Claire. Youâ€™re kind of awesome.”
“Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.”

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