"We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces ..."

-- Ivy Compton-Burnett

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“What good is all the cash if it doesn't buy time and what good is bein famous if I'm never on your mind?”
“In school they told me I was a Jew, "a filthy Jew." At first I asked myself what exactly that was. But then I began to understand. I was a Jew, I was a member of the Jewish faith, the Jewish community. One time, when I was giving a reading at a school, someone asked me: "If it was so dangerous to be Jewish, why didn't you convert to Christianity?" My response was: "It's not as easy you think. When you're a Jew, you're a Jew.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I do have a very wonderful mentor, who helps me and reads my work and criticizes me, all the time. You've gotta have those people, who will tell you the truth and help you. You don't want anyone buttering you up. I want someone to tell me what I can fix. That's what I like.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Every night before you go to bed write down three things good that happened to you that day. That's pretty much all it takes to get a happiness boost over time.”
“To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.”
“Because for most of us, suicide is a moment we'll never choose. It's only for people like Lexy, who know they might choose eventually, who believe they have a choice to make.”

Source : Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press
“: But the people on the CD are famous. Those people were coming out to see those people. I don't think they need that kind of intimacy with those people.”

Source : Source: www.dead-frog.com
“Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.”

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