"I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something."

-- Margaret Atwood

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“French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale, rusty and missing a lot of essential parts.”
“Iâ€™ll play Pretty Pretty Princess with you if you just let me watch a little bit of March Madness.”
“Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.”
“Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is a "barbed-wire entanglement" designed to interfere with, restrict, and impede government officials in the exercise of political power.”
“I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.”
“Mia: I can't do this, I'm a girl. Gym Teacher Harbula: What am I? A duck?”
“As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."”
“To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.”

Source : 1985 Of Edmund Wilson. In the New York Times, 28 Jul, reviewing David Castronovo Edmund Wilson (1984).

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