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“From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.”

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Sue Monk Kidd is an American author known for her novels, particularly 'The Secret Garden' and 'The Invention of Wings'. Born on August 12, 1948, she has a passion for literature and writing from a young age. more

“American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use.”

Use Cities Greater Mountain Boxes Holes Trash Automobile Rubbish American Cities Packaging Badgers

Author:John Steinbeck

“A man agrees with god as a raindrop agrees with the storm”

Men Agree Storm Raindrops

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.”

People Thinking Mean Doe Stories Stuff Attitude Alive Honest Serious Tragic Absurdity Eighteen

Author:Frank Zappa

“When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.”

Looks Mean Doe Home Suffering Sweet Comparison Jewels Brighter Foreign Places

Book:The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Source: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?”

Persons My Own Solitude Anxious

Author:David Markson

“Real computers scared me; if you can find Them, then They can find you.”

Ifs Real Computer Scared

Book:A Visit From the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad

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