Todd Strasser quotes
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“There's more to life then living, so hold on.”
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“The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.”
-- Todd StrasserSource : Todd Strasser (2012). “Give a Boy a Gun”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
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“Davy once asked me if I thought it was better to be a has-been than a never was, but maybe it doesn't make much of a difference. In the end, people are just people, and the only things that matter are whether they are good or bad, loving or unloving, loved or unloved.”
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“It's weird when you wake of from a bad dream and everything is still bad.”
-- Todd StrasserSource : Todd Strasser (2010). “Blood on My Hands”, p.56, Carolrhoda Lab ™
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“The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.”
Source : Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.”
Source : In New York Times 13 Feb. 1959, p. 21
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“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.”
Source : Address at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1925.
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“There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get”
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“There's more to life than love.”
Source : "Ramon Bautista On Fashionable Girls". Style Factor Interview, sg.style.yahoo.com. November 23, 2012.
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“Carpe Dium, I say. Seize the day. Grab it by the throat and rattle its bollocks”
Source : Liz Jensen (1998). “Ark Baby”, Overlook Books
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