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Adam Gidwitz

"So thirsty," Jack groaned. "So worried,"said the frog. I hope we don't starve to death." "Yes,"said Jill, "not starving to death would be nice." "So would not thirsting to death," said Jack "Thirsting isn't even a word," said Jill "It isn't?" "No." "Then what's the word?" "I dont know. You just can't." "Oh." This is, of course, the kind of inane conversation that occurs when people are slowly losing their minds."

Source : Adam Gidwitz (2012). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.71, Penguin

Adam Gidwitz

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“Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss publicly in detail the most intimate aspects of personal life, while maintaining an almost prudish reserve concerning the political significance of family life.”
“You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.”
“I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.”
“I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy amount become too much? There are, of course, those who suffer because their desire for sex has become compulsive; in their case the drive (loneliness, guilt) is at fault, not the activity as such. When morality is discussed I invariably discover, halfway into the conversation, that what is meant are not the great ethical questions but the rather dreary business of sexual habit, which to my mind is an aesthetic rather than an ethical issue.”

Source : "States of Desire: Travels in Gay America". Book by Edmund White, 1980.
“Mobile is something I think about all the time now.”
“I would like to think that Im more different from my character than I am.”
“The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.”
“I'm 5 feet 7 but my legs weren't long enough to be a big-time model. From the knees up, everything is long but from ankle to knee, if I was in proportion, I'd be 5 feet 9”

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