"Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt."

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Source : Gail Parent (2004). “Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York”, p.72, The Overlook Press

Gail Parent

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“Poetry is an orphan of silence.”
“I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.”
“Personally, I think that my father's ministry does have some effect on one. I perhaps thought I wasn't listening that well, but I could almost recite his sermons. He had the old-fashioned preaching style of chanting. He would explain a point and then there would be this pitch to excite the audience because people would eventually shout and respond to what he was saying.”

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“The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.”
“Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together.”
“I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare.”
“Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on buses and blow them up: those are terrorists. Some people speak to you and their words blow you up: what would you call those people? Life is a condemned cell. . . . That's the only way to protect yourself . . . to understand that you're always under sentence of death and to try to get a temporary remission.”
“We want the right people, the ones who love to play football. I want a guy who, if I punch him in the mouth, doesn't stand there and say, ?Why did you punch me?' I want the guy who punches me back first, and then asks me why I did it.”

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