Mary Robison quotes
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“You know, up until later on today, I never really knew how to drink.”
-- Mary RobisonSource : Mary Robison (2009). “One D.O.A., One on the Way: A Novel”, p.71, Counterpoint Press
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“Something else that makes me angry is that I got too old to prostitute myself. I wasn't going to anyway but it was there, it was my Z plan.”
-- Mary RobisonSource : Mary Robison (2001). “Why Did I Ever”, Counterpoint LLC
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“What it takes to survive out here is order, I realize and say to myself, ‘Divide the day into equal periods. See this travel alarm? You get up, don your uniform, move according to the bell.’”
-- Mary RobisonSource : Mary Robison (2001). “Why Did I Ever”, Counterpoint LLC
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“I grew up in a family of ten. You had to have, like, a burst appendix to get the floor.... My brothers and sisters are very quick, intense, brilliant, very sarcastic people. And they were always right there with you, right there, missing not one little throat clearing.”
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