"But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that Mom and Dad canâ€™t. Or wonâ€™t."

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Source : Edward Bloor (2006). “Tangerine”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Edward Bloor

#Mom Quotes #Dad Quotes #Mom And Dad Quotes

“I don't want to be limited or ghettoized in any way.”
“These hormones still belong to the physiologist and to the clinical investigator as much as, if not more than, to the practicing physician. But as Professor Starling said many years ago, 'The physiology of today is the medicine of tomorrow'.”
“We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care.”
“I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.”
“Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.”

Source : Interview with Toming Jun Liu, www.wordswithoutborders.org. August 2003.
“Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we take now will stay ours...Everything we don't grab will go to them.”
“If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.”
“The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez, they're not bound in the same sort of way. They don't come out of the classic 19th-century novel, which is where all the problems start. 19th-century novels are fabulous and we should all read them, but we shouldn't write them.”

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