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Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one. — Laurie Graham

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be. — George V. Higgins

When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not. — Edith Stein

Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too. — George V. Higgins

HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?
MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge ... — George Bernard Shaw

In Argentina, urban poverty plummeted from 54.7 percent in 2003 to 6.5 percent in 2011, according to government data collected by the U.N. — Naomi Klein

Professor Henry Higgins: Oh, Pickering, for God's sake stop being dashed and do something! — George Bernard Shaw

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race. — Laura Schlessinger

How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it? — George Bernard Shaw

This life's hard, but it's harder if you're stupid. — George V. Higgins

There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things. Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalion — George Bernard Shaw

We have a history between us, and in some ways I think that is thicker than anger, thicker than blood. — Jodi Picoult

Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder. — George V. Higgins

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do. — George V. Higgins

Silvestre has had the whites of the goal in his eyes ever since ... — Ian Darke

No matter what, though, I'm staying with you. If you'll let me. If you want me to. — C.L.Stone

The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story. — George V. Higgins

You cannot write well without data. — George V. Higgins

What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round, — George V. Higgins

I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end up with a skyscraper made of wood. — Norman Mailer

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist. — George V. Higgins

The painting has a life of its own — Jackson Pollock

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see. — George V. Higgins

It was darker than a carload of assholes. — George V. Higgins

People will believe absurd things - in the 19th century and now. — Harvey Pekar

Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings. — George V. Higgins

You never know what attracts people to each other, — Elizabeth Strout

Professor Henry Higgins: She's an owl, sickened by a few days of *my* sunshine. — George Bernard Shaw

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?
DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me. — George Bernard Shaw

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. — Ronald Reagan