"Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom."

-- Jane Smiley

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“A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.”
“Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.”
“People want sex education out of the schools. They believe sex education causes promiscuity. Hey, I took algebra, but I never do math.”
“You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.”

Source : "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.
“See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.”
“When you have something good... When you have something good, you don't play with it! You don't take chances with it! You don't take risks with it! When you got something good, you get every single thing you can get out of it! Because guess what? When you take care of something good, that something good takes care of you.”
“I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.”
“Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.”

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