"It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance."

-- Jane Swisshelm

#Marriage Quotes #War Quotes #Women Quotes

“I think the country needs a good laugh. There are so many things dividing us right now, in the real world, that the timing is right for escapist entertainment that makes you feel better about your own family. If this family can survive, than everyone has got a chance.”
“That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.”
“I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.”

Source : "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.
“I've been very fortunate in my career.”
“The wilderness within us is actually the best part of us.”
“I want to tell any young girl out there who's a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.”
“A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.”
“All the difficulties surrounding the making of Mars et Avril actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!”

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