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“I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a novel because I know I have space to fail.”
Source : Source: www.percontra.net
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“Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.”
Source : "Rancho Libido and Other Hot Spots" by Shelia Ballantyne, www.nytimes.com. April 28, 1985. 
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“I tend to be a pretty spacey and scattered person, so anything that makes me feel "grounded" comes as a welcome relief.”
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“We are also rather concerned about our moorhen who went mad while we were in Italy and began to build a nest in a tree. ... she walks about in the tree, looking as uneasy yet persevering as a district visitor in a brothel.”
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“Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.”
Source : Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“It's perfectly understandable and proper for one to be anti-Semite, but to exterminate women and children is so extraordinary, it's hard to believe. No defendant here wanted that.”
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“Frankly, we doubt the veracity and seriousness of the United States in regard to achieving results that would be acceptable to both sides in Geneva.”
Source : "Peace is Possible: The Politics of the Sermon on the Mount" by Franz Alt, (p. 94), 1985.
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“In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.”
