"All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?"

-- Studs Terkel

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“Nothing can come of nothing.”
“All rappers are princesses like me.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Earl Sweatshirt, on Being a Teenage Rap Prodigy Back From Exile" by Nate Hopper, www.esquire.com. August 19, 2013.
“In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.”
“The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.”
“I would imagine that most of the people who consider themselves successful aren't, at least in the ways that really matter-myself included.”
“They say I have the ugliest feet in the world. I don't care if they say it - I'm not gonna hide 'em!”
“I agree that Scott Lively is marginal, and that is exactly why evangelicals must not let him speak for them. But in Uganda, Scott Lively is allowed to address the parliament for five hours, and his hate-filled message led directly to the anti-homosexuality bill.”
“I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.”

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