"Somehow I wasn't adding up right anymore. My parts weren't summing into myself."

-- Karen Russell

“Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having some sort of emotional trauma, you need to find a person to talk to about it who says, 'This is quite normal; it's fine.'”
“It is important that the Greek people make decisions on important developments.”
“A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.”

Source : "Alison Jackson's best shot" by Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2007.
“What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?”
“Really good mountain bikers are lousy judges of trail difficulty.Â We haven't a clue, we just ride.”
“Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]”
“Swearing can be fun, but doing it all the time causes a lot of problems”

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