"American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form."

-- Chester Himes

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“Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been.”
“Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.”

Source : Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.218, Pan Macmillan
“The most exquisite paradoxâ€¦ as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”
“The truth is, part of me is every age. Iâ€™m a three-year-old, Iâ€™m a five-year-old, Iâ€™m a thirty-seven-year-old, Iâ€™m a fifty-year-old. Iâ€™ve been through all of them, and I know what itâ€™s like. I delight in being a child when itâ€™s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when itâ€™s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.”
“I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?”
“If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you 'do' boundaries with your kids, they internalize the experiences, remember them, digest them, and make them part of how they see reality.”
“I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.”
“We need to police ourselves in the media.”

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