"Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one."

-- Jane Smiley

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“I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.”

Source : "Philippines Free Press", Volume 62, Issues 46-52, (p. 44), 1969.
“Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes.”
“Children love me, dammit!”
“Through the fall our nature was stripped of divine illumination and resplendence. But the Logos of God had pity upon our disfigurement, and in His compassion He took our nature upon Himself. On Tabor He manifested it to His elect disciples clothed once again most brilliantly. He showed what we once were and what we shall become through Him in the age to come if we choose to live our present life, as far as possible, in accordance with His ways.”
“At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks... until we developed personalities. We had to get beyond getting a laugh. They may roll in the aisles, but that doesn't mean you have a great picture. You have pathos in the thing.”
“Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer.”
“I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy.”
“Whores have the ability to put up with behaviors other women would never manage to put up with. That's why we deserve to be generously compensated.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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