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“I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor.”
Source : "Rare letters from father of US Navy surface in South Carolina". www.foxnews.com. July 4, 2013. 
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“We destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention, direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, etc.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.”
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“The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with the perfect understanding that history will trump mythology.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“I am faithful up to the point of death. It's the only thing I respect. I never abandon anyone. I'm not talking about sexual relations. I'm faithful in my friendship, my admiration.”
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“Your value is in yourself; the other stuff will come and go.”
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“When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.”
Source : "The Exploding Girl Blows Up". Interview with Meryl Cates, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2011.
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“People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.”
Source : Twitter post from Nov 18, 2015
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“I have a full life off the road. I was never in it just for the money or the career. That's why I'm comfortable with myself. I know who I am out of the spotlight.”
