"Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well."

-- John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

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“It's like a jumble of huts in a jungle somewhere. I don't understand how you can live there. It's really, completely dead. Walk along the street, there's nothing moving. I've lived in small Spanish fishing villages which were literally sunny all day long everyday of the week, but they weren't as boring as Los Angeles.”
“She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of the choices the world seemed to be offering them.”

Source : Tom Perrotta (2007). “Little Children: A Novel”, p.10, Macmillan
“I'm dying and all I hear are insults!”
“They shouldn't call anything a boot camp unless you're going off to war. Standup boot camp has been a fantastic thing, for the people putting it on. They keep you out in the woods and won't let you come back until you're funny. Lenny Bruce came up with his Religions Inc. bit on a day hike.”
“But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.”
“I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.”
“The truth is, even though we sort of feel like we have equal rights in America, right under the surface there are huge issues that are at play that really do affect women. And itâ€™s time for all the women in America and all the men that love women, and all the gay people, and all the people of color that weâ€™ve all fought for, to fight for us now.”
“Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.”

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