"I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts."

-- Shirley Jackson

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“Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism and correction and simple vocabulary curios; she scratched a few of them on the smooth red wall.”

Source : Antonya Nelson (1999). “Nobody's Girl: A Novel”, Scribner
“In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.”
“One instant is eternity; eternity is the now.”
“There seems little doubt that sophisticated techniques have now reached the stage where, if murder is desired, a killer, once programmed and 'on hold', can be triggered into action.”
“Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.”
“I understand that a man can have everything having nothing and nothing having everything.”
“I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.”

Source : "He's a really good guy". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2007.
“There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.”

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