"Even when all the paperwork-a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns-clearly indicates you're an adult, but all the same, there you are, clutching the phone and thanking God that you're still somebody's daughter."

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Source : "The Middle Place". Book by Kelly Corrigan, www.today.com. 2005.

Kelly Corrigan

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“The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear.”
“I despise computers in many ways. I think theyâ€™re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.”
“I'll be peeing like a champion in no time”
“I Think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power , the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind form all repression. I say not that art has already realized this, on the contrary, and because it has not, it has to be developed as a weapon, at first there are radical levels, then you can speak about special details. (1973”

Source : "The Role of Documentation in Conceptual Art: : An Aesthetic Inquiry". Book by Robert C. Morgan, 1978.
“I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.”
“Nowhere have I found words more powerful than those in the Psalms. Their fervid poetry cleanses one, gives one strength, brings hope in moments of darkness. Makes one look critically into oneself, convict oneself, and wash one's heart clean with one's own tears. It is the ever-burning fire of love, of gratitude, humility, and truth.”

Source : Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”
“Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the world no longer drives them. Seeing the madness of our civilization so clearly, they feel somewhat alienated from the culture around them. Some feel that they inhabit a no-man's-land between two worlds. They are no longer run by the ego, yet the arising awareness has not yet become fully integrated into their lives. Inner and outer purpose have not merged.”
“If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.”

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