"Now, if I had an Indian name, it would be Stands in Confusion."

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Source : "My inspiration: Caroline Lawrence on Mark Twain" by Caroline Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2014.

Caroline Lawrence

#Names Quotes #Confusion Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.”
“At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone, there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.”
“I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.”
“Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. ... You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're 'not at all like yourself but will be soon,' but you know you won't.”

Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.133, Pan Macmillan
“I feel like I have always played within the rules. I would never break the rules.”
“The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.”
“God help us we're in the hands of engineers.”
“I hate that word blog It sounds like a large accumulation of snot”

Source : Melissa James Gibson (2013). “This and Other Plays”, p.31, Theatre Communications Group

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