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she has to sift through the world and decide for herself what’s good about it and what’s bad,
“I mean, if
you’re going to try
you might as well fight
for the whole enchilada”
― The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps
you’re going to try
you might as well fight
for the whole enchilada”
― The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps
“How come you walk so funny?"
"I was frying some chicken in the pan and the grease exploded, it burned my legs."
"I thought maybe you had war wounds."
"No, the chicken did it.”
― Factotum
"I was frying some chicken in the pan and the grease exploded, it burned my legs."
"I thought maybe you had war wounds."
"No, the chicken did it.”
― Factotum
“If you see a person who looks like your teenage fantasy walking down the street, it's probably not your fantasy, but someone who had the same fantasy as you and decided instead of getting it or being it, to look like it, and so he went to the store and bought the look that you both like.”
― Fame
― Fame
“... people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. And I here make a rule – a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting – only the deeply personal and familiar.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“... he learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it. He developed a love for poor people he could not have conceived if he had not been poor himself.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
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