"Everything I know about lifeÂ I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write."

-- Dani Shapiro

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“A lot of so-called rich, according to this legislation, make $250,000. That's a lot of money, but it is not rich.”
“Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.”
“It's the off-the-court spotlight in terms of having people look at you in terms of analyzing every little thing you do in your life, or having less privacy in your day-to-day activities, that's an area I need to get more accustomed to.”
“Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.”
“One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
“You are fiercely heterosexual and well-formed, and it's no one's business that you've shrunk your parents and keep them in a terranium, but you have a gatling gun for a mouth, and if that's a diary you're producing from your cleavage, I'm leaving.”

Source : Mark Leyner (2012). “I Smell Esther Williams”, p.36, Vintage
“Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.”

Source : Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.228
“In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.”

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