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“If your hair has never given you any trouble, if you've never had huge fights with your mother about it, then you might not have a story to tell. But I think most people do.”

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Elizabeth Benedict

Elizabeth Benedict is an American novelist known for her profound psychological portrayals and complex character development. Her novels often explore themes of personal identity, moral dilemmas, and gender issues. more

“Gandhi was such an important figure to the pacifists of the '30s, and he was such an extraordinary embodiment of nonviolence, that I thought it was necessary to have him in there. When he would say something about the war, it was to some extent news - and he was sure to have a response that was different from that of other world leaders.”

World Important Different War Leader Figures News Response Extraordinary Nonviolence Other Worlds Embodiment Pacifist World Leader

Author:Nicholson Baker

“Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a very singular kind of resistance to it. At the time he was speaking about the violence in Europe, his followers were in jail as prisoners of the British government.”

Wells Kind Important Country Reason Government Suffering Violence Europe British Resistance Empires Jail Prisoner Followers British Empire British Government

Author:Nicholson Baker

“I take the subway four times a day, or close to it. I just love the subway! My grandfather worked as an electrician when they were digging the subway.”

Four Grandfather My Grandfather Digging Subway Electrician

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“Sometimes when my fans come up to me, they think it's going to be entertaining, like I'm going to tell jokes or do bits, and then instead of that I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, "This is boring. I want to go talk to somebody else." I think I bore my fans to death by over-talking to them.”

Thinking Want Kind Ends Sometimes Bits Talking Fans Jokes Come Up Boring Entertaining Bores Mundane

Author:Mike Birbiglia

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