"People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,'"

-- Jennifer Weiner

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“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”
“Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres. Gaul as a whole is divided into three parts.”
“Hollywood is not good when it comes to age”
“That in the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering that within a little time, the leaves would be renewed, and after that the flowers and fruit appear, he received a high view of the Providence and Power of GOD, which has never since been effaced from his soul. That this view had perfectly set him loose from the world, and kindled in him such a love for GOD, that he could not tell whether it had increased in above forty years that he had lived since.”
“I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.”
“I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.”

Source : "Lives less ordinary" by Claire Armitstead, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2008.
“I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime”
“I believe one must be such a big egoist that it is possible to avoid the big tendencies that cut of your head. What we call fascism and things like that. It is about egoism. When you are egoistic enough you avoid such things. You become an incurable individualist and in that case you are sailing in your own sea anyway. What is very enjoyable for the individualist is to find this kind of "happy spaces" to be in and to live in.”

Source : Source: sturm-lie.be

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