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“Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors.”
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“Picture all the money that I've gotten off tours. Now picture me plotting for more.”
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“When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.”
Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014. 
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“How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?”
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“There is no country that has the best men.”
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“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
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“The physical symptoms of fight or flight are what the human body has learned over thousands of years to operate efficiently and at the highest level...anxiety is a cognitive interpretation of that physical response.”
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“Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body.”
Source : Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.53, Algonquin Books
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“Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of griefs is not a proscenium, and a man who wails is not a dancing bear.”
Source : "Notebook of a Return to the Native Land". Book by Aime Cesaire, 1939.
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“Soloing is serious business, because you can be seriously dead.”
