"Seems to me God made a big mistake when He failed to put handles on watermelons."

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Source : Karen Cushman (1996). “The Ballad of Lucy Whipple”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Karen Cushman

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“He (God) doesn't need me, but He desires me.”
“I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much.... I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in's work. The very grindstone 'ull go on turning a bit after you loose it.”
“Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.”
“When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.”
“Before the internet, a journalist would write an article about a company that the company felt was unfair and missed a point. All they could do was write a letter to the editor and wait, and maybe a week later it would be printed, or not. Now, they can go to medium.com and immediately publish a long rebuttal, saying the journalist forgot this and did not consider that, the analyst is wrong here. Everybody pulls that immediately into the debate. So it is a much more democratic field for ideas.”

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“I was a very polite schoolgirl who did her work very well and hid under tables. I'd hate to think I haven't changed at all.”

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“I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.”
“Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it was mostly learn as you go.”

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