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“I married a woman who's not going to take anything. No slips. She's very accountable, and she holds me very accountable.”
“Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in here, I said, and they are out there? That’s the way it is, said Aunt Hetty, the shriveled-up one. I have the rages that small animals have, being small, being animal. Written on me was a message, “At Your Service,†like a book of paper matches. One by one we were taken out and struck. We come bearing supper, our heads on fire.”
Source : Paulette Jiles (1988). “Blackwater”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
“To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world.”
“People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'”
“I learned in my early years in the theater that I would never become the guy on top. I'll never create a show; I don't have a brain expansive enough to see the whole picture, in a way that would behoove anyone.”
“We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation in the ideological struggle with communism. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late.”
“He said you were on the scene when that Laurel Canyon homicide went down.†“I’m lucky that way,†I said. “So are you two square again?†I halted, mid-ripping open the cookies, and stared at him. “Well, he’s pretty square,†I said. “I’m just a rectangular guy.†With latent triangular tendencies.”
“Facebook is great for getting upset about things people say even though you haven't seen them in 12 years.”
Kathleen Wynne Premier of Ontario
Ted McMeekin Member of Provincial Parliament
