"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."

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Mark Haddon

#Country Quotes #Writing Quotes #America Quotes

“I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.”
“It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.”
“Concentrate on the correct movement each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits. Correctly executed and mastered to the point of subconscious reaction, these exercises will reflect grace and balance in your routine activities.”
“When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.”
“Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.”
“Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements . . . are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations.”
“Nothing important happened today.”
“Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.”

Source : Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.182, Open Road Media

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