"This is what life does. It lets you walk up to the store to buy breakfast and the paper, on a stiff knee. It lets you choose the way you have your eggs, your coffee. Then it sits a fisherman down beside you at the counter who says, Last night, the channel was full of starfish. And you wonder, is this a message, finally, or just another day?"

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Source : Eleanor Lerman (2005). “Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds”

Eleanor Lerman

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“We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures. And nonhuman animals experience pain sensations just like we do. They too are strong, intelligent, industrious, mobile, and evolutional. They too are capable of growth and adaptation. Like us, firsthand foremost, they are earthlings. And like us, they are surviving. Like us they also seek their own comfort rather than discomfort. And like us they express degrees of emotion. In short like us, they are alive.”
“We all claim to worship the same God, so why don't we fellowship together? ... The only thing that keeps us from fellowshiping together are the church buildings, the organizations.”
“Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.”
“Iâ€™m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but Iâ€™d be happy to talk about my own experiences as a generation Y writer. I was raised by a generation of hippies. Throughout my childhood, teachers urged me to fight the establishment. My English teacher assigned Ginsberg and Kerouac and declared Bob Dylan â€œa genius.â€ My science teacher told me that television was â€œthe new opiate of the massesâ€ and bragged about never having owned one. My drama teacher made us perform Beckett.”
“There are a lot of actors that I really love to watch, actors who I have fun watching - I think Johnny Depp is phenomenal. But I wouldn't want that career as much as I'd like a career like Tom Hanks - he kind of represents the everyman.”
“Liquor is such a nice substitute for facing adult life.”

Source : Dorothy B. Hughes (2017). “In a Lonely Place”, p.102, New York Review of Books
“Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.”
“The sensory deprivation chamber has been the most important tool that I've ever used for developing my mind”

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