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It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.

— Emma Donoghue Room (novel) (2010)

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Stories are a different kind of true.

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"Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing."

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When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything.

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I think buddy is man talk for sweetie.

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Looking back, I can now see that Hood is part of a small but interesting body of lesbian novels of loss and bereavement (by people like Sarah Schulman, Marion Douglas, Sarah Von Arsdale, Carol Anshaw) written in the 1990s. We were catching up with the boys, perhaps; gay men really took the lead in writing honest and beautiful books about mourning.

interview in Irish women writers speak out by Caitriona Moloney & Helen Thompson (2003)

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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Friedrich Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

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