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“I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.”
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“Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.”
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“Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.”
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“I never leave home without my writing notebook, and get a lot of writing done in transit. One great place to create is while riding the subways of New York City, where I live.”
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“My dream project is a sports film, because I love writing emotional music and a sports film is one of the few places you can do it without being melodramatic.”
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“We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.”
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“My father and my mother separated when I was two.”
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“You know, son, I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work and there will always be misfortunes we can't control, lurking out at the edges - storms, sickness, wolves. But there is such a thing as a good life and I think that we have one here.”
Source : Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.625, Random House Books for Young Readers
