"Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises."

-- Gunter Grass

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“You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.”

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“I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.”
“I don't like to give out advice. I make suggestions when I get to know somebody a little bit, but I don't know about advice.”
“You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.”
“The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.”

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“What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.”
“I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.”
“There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.”

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