You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book. - Chris Crutcher

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My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not playing campfire meetings. I don't remember anyone singing along with Elvis, Carl Perkins or Little Richard.

Chris Crutcher

You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

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. . . racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

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. . . we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

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I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.

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I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.

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Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

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Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.

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Caroline Polachek

Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done.

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Albert Camus

Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving?. . . Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended.

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Bela Lugosi

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

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