"Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

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“It no longer makes sense to speak of "feeding problems" or "sleep problems" or "negative behavior" is if they were distinct categories, but to speak of "problems of development" and to search for the meaning of feeding and sleep disturbances or behavior disorders in the developmental phase which has produced them.”
“If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man's continuous struggle to lift his social position and to add dimension to his spiritual being.”
“A lot of my success is because of what I look like. I know that.”
“Most of all, God has blessed us by giving us the privilege of knowing Him and walking with Him every day. He did this by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins.”
“What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.”

Source : Points of View Ch. 1
“Dont wear dresses that are too tight. A size number is just a number. If the fit is comfortable, it will look more elegant.”
“There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.”
“It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.”

Source : "Breaking the Cycle of Childhood Poverty" by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.

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