"Some people die, others just run out of fuel."

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Source : Carmen Boullosa (2007). “Cleopatra Dismounts: A Novel”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Carmen Boullosa

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“I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Nothing happens carelessly. Weâ€™re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour, that dies before it can lay eyes on those who made it, even that soul did not live without purpose: this is my sudden certainty.”
“If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.”
“A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.”
“You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.”
“[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore, according to Lord Coke, null and void.”
“Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.”
“The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language.”

Source : Jefferson Davis (1971). “The rise and fall of the Confederate Government”, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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