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“I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.”
Source : "This week in fiction:Ben Marcus" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2013. 
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“There are people who fly to the height of stardom in a single day, and then there are people like me. I used to have this ridiculous idea that I absolutely had to be a big, big movie star. Now all Im after is happiness.”
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“Not a penny off the pay, not a second on the day.”
Source : Referring to the miners' slogan in speech at York, 3 April 1926: 'The Times' 5 April 1926
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“I was bullied. I was a bit of a geek. Good-looking guys were off-limits. I didn't start dating until I was 18.”
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“Mike Vax plays trumpet the way you have to play in order to hold down the lead chair with Stan Kenton.”
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“I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it”
Source : Richard Wright (1998). “Black Boy”, Turtleback
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“All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.”
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“I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.”
