"Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life."

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Source : Karen Cushman (2014). “Catherine, Called Birdy”, p.72, Pan Macmillan

Karen Cushman

“Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life.”
“Data quality is corporate America's dirty little secret.”
“I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.”
“Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.”
“Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.”

Source : "'Twilight' Star Cam Gigandet Talks About Creepy Kids In 'Unborn,' Being Shirtless Onscreen". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. October 24, 2008.
“People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.”
“We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.”
“There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.”

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