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My chest got this weird feeling, like when you stare into the eyes of a little baby and the baby looks back up at you…

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My chest got this weird feeling, like when you stare into the eyes of a little baby and the baby looks back…
The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this…
I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this…
I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like,…
When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am.…
But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right…
People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing. There's not…
But mostly I remember every morning before school. How she'd say "Hey, honey!" just I was walking out the apartment door. And…
Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story…
When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as…
In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace…
I used to be so angry about the kids that had stuff. Like the kids that had cars, the kids that had…

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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back. — Ben Jonson
When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with… — Simon Wiesenthal
My life is nothing but pressure. All pressure. This pressure is like a heaviness. It's always on top of me, this heaviness.… — Rodney Dangerfield
It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins. — Karl Barth
When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against… — Beatrice M. Hinkle
Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has. — Agatha Christie
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that… — Jacob Bronowski
Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized – the… — Edward Kennedy
If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals,… — Frans de Waal
It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true… — Frans de Waal
Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges.… — Denis Johnson

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