Todd Strasser quotes

“There's more to life then living, so hold on.”
-- Todd Strasser

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“The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.”
-- Todd Strasser

Source : 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.”
-- Todd Strasser

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“It's weird when you wake of from a bad dream and everything is still bad.”
-- Todd Strasser

Source : Todd Strasser (2010). “Blood on My Hands”, p.56, Carolrhoda Lab ™

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“The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As First Lady Michelle Obama sums up, both she and the President believe 'strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow.'”

“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)

“I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.”

“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

“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.

“There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get”

“There's so much more to life than looking a certain way.”

“There's a lot more to life than how fat or thin you are.”

“There's more to life than love.”

Source : "Ramon Bautista On Fashionable Girls". Style Factor Interview, sg.style.yahoo.com. November 23, 2012.

“Carpe Dium, I say. Seize the day. Grab it by the throat and rattle its bollocks”

Source : Liz Jensen (1998). “Ark Baby”, Overlook Books