"Look. All books are weird when you think about it.... It goes without saying that real life is also weird."

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Kelly Link

#Real Quotes #Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.”
“Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.”
“If you approach a film with the feeling that you are going to have some impact on society then you're liable to get carried away with yourself. Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, "Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.”
“American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.”
“With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.”
“It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public "discussion".”

Source : Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.120, Scholastic Inc.
“All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.”
“Have the fearless attitude of a hero and the loving heart of a child.”

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