"Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of entropy and decay, had sat peacefully crunching popcorn and drinking soda while the house fell down around us. If I had to guess the number of books she read during that time, I would place the number at somewhere in the neighborhood of forty thousand."

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Source : Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.163, Broadway Books

Haven Kimmel

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“Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand. We must not surrender our positions or our values. The gospel of Jesus Christ and the covenants we have made inevitably cast us as combatants in the eternal contest between truth and error. there is no middle ground in that contest.”
“Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.”

Source : "ASAP Rocky Coveteur Interview: Rapper Says ‘Fashion Is Almost Like A Religion’" by Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2013.
“I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.”
“I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.”
“The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Nov 05, 2013
“The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.”

Source : "Now, about that passport..." by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2002.
“The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.”
“I was happy to have an attraction in our building that we didn't have to pay for.”

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