"Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Kathleen Rooney

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“Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.”
“It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.”
“Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.”
“In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people.”

Source : Joel Dorman Steele (1872). “Fourteen Weeks in Chemistry”, p.223
“Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces?”
“I think that, for me, my favorite thing to do is perform standup onstage. Everything else I do is for the exposure to do more stand-up onstage, and for the money, and for the health insurance.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I think that we should make the best of where we live and we all should be able to come back home to a place that is welcoming and represents who we are”

Source : "David Bromstad, Designer And HGTV Star, Talks 2013 Trends And Big Decor Mistakes". Interview with Rain Embuscado, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2013.
“When you ask someone how they are doing, do you really mean it? When you answer someone back how you are doing, are you really telling the truth?”

Source : "Brady Quinn on Jovan Belcher tragedy: An eloquent moment for Chiefs QB" by Cindy Boren, www.washingtonpost.com. December 3, 2012.

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