"Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Debra Dean

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“Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.”
“No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.”
“Relationships help you learn more about what you want. If one doesn't work out, you just kind of look at it and go, Okay, well, this is what I did like and this is what I didn't like, and this is what I did wrong, and maybe I need to be more like this. And so you learn things, and that's why you grow. And you bring all the stuff that you've changed about yourself to a new relationship until you finally find that person you really, really want.”

Source : "Ashley Tisdale" by Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. November 3, 2008.
“To kill the misconception, I donâ€™t think the songs we wrote before â€˜Danger Daysâ€™ are bad songs by any means. In fact, I kinda think some of them are among my favorites we have ever written. A lot of them are kinda fâ€”ing radâ€¦ they just so happened to have been created in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and we as their parents were not ready to raise them just yetâ€¦ and so they sat and waited.”
“Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.”
“Bitter is wine, but it sweetens all bitterness.”

Source : Moses Ibn Ezra (1945). “‏מחברת משירי משה בן יעקב אבן עזרא /‏”
“It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.”

Source : William Saroyan (2009). “The Time of Your Life”, p.55, A&C Black
“I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can't tell you any line from any play I've ever done.”

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