"Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point."

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John Jeremiah Sullivan

#World Quotes #Firsts Quotes #First Time Quotes

“It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremostâ€”not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.”
“Medicaid provides health care to our neediest citizens. While other states have had to cut Medicaid rolls and benefits already, Delaware has not. But the President's proposed budget would shift tens of millions of dollars of cost to the states, raising the real possibility of program cuts.”
“It's the way of the world, kid. Go with the winner.”
“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.”
“God supplies the needs of His people according to their needs but does not ordinarily allow stockpiling.”
“Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?”
“If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.”
“I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else'.”

Source : "Howard reasserts right to decide cultural identity". The Age, September 20, 1988.

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