Amity Gaige Quotes

Edan Lepucki sets her debut novel, 'California,' somewhere in the 2060s. The nearness of this era helps make her vision both more discomfiting and more credible.

Amity Gaige

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I used to publish these stories in 32-page comics, and I would either do short stories or break the long ones up into chunks so there would be some variety inside the comic. But since then, people have been doing more and more long, standalone works, and the term 'graphic novel' has sort of become the codified term now.

Jim Woodring

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I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.

Jennifer Egan

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I always knew I wanted to be a performance artist.

Andra Day

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I tell myself, 'I'm the greatest, and this is what you need to do.'

Max Holloway

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And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government.

Michael Bloomberg

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Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.

Robert Taft

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I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train.

Ronald Biggs

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Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.

Rush Limbaugh

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A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.

Monica Crowley

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It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

Dick Schaap

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If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.

Dean Kamen

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All that I have achieved has been possible not only because of my own strength and perseverance, gained through hardship, but also through other people's support and belief in me.

Clemantine Wamariya

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