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"When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more."
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"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."
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"Sunday school don't make you cool forever."
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"While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent."
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"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."
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"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."
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"I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A."
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"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."
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"When I was in Taiwan, I was taught in school that Taiwan is part of China."
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"I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off."
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"I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom."
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"My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust."
Mother
"Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing."
Mother
"I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror."
Home
"When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more."
School
"I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having."
Family
"If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free."
Elderly
"Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all."
Thought
"I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries."
Love
"People always like things that seem exotic."
People
"He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore."
Love
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