"We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's behind it, to see the bleak unspeakable stuff, and to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words but if we can, into rhythm and blues. You can't do this without discovering your own true voice, and you can't find your true voice and peer behind the door and report honestly and clearly to us if your parents are reading over your shoulder."

-- Anne Lamott

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“Today, if you're an American business, you actually get a benefit for going overseas. You get to defer your taxes. So if you're looking at a competitive world, you say to yourself, "Hey, I do better overseas than I do here in America."”
“...he will go to his grave feeling cheated, never realizing that there isn't much difference between one woman and the other, that it is the loving that creates the difference.”
“I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.”

Source : Interview with John Ashbery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1987.
“If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!!”
“I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.”
“Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.”
“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.”
“Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.”

Source : "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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