Ellen Raskin Quotes

#1. Smiling without good reason is demeaning.

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#2. Hi Sandy, I won!

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#3. The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo

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#4. I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible."
"Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

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#5. You can't read my shorthand because I wrote in Polish.

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#6. Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation."
"An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach.

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#7. Some people just join the military because they need college money. Then they're idiots and college wasn't going to help.

Doug Stanhope

#8. Hey Chris, bet you don't know the Latin name of the red-headed woodpecker.
That was a hard one. Chris had to say Melanerpes erythrocephalus very slowly.

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#9. Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler

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#10. My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.

Chuck Schumer

#11. Death is senseless yet makes way for the living.

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#12. She could have been an interior decorator, a good one, too, if it wasn't for the pressing demands of so on and so forth.

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#13. A story, no matter how factually true, is still just a story.

Marianne Williamson

#14. I can write about images from my own childhood for children today. I wasn't sure I could do this, but there was no way out; I had to use the images from my own childhood, because the child I was is the only child I really know.

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#15. Without courage, little is done and accomplished.

Auliq Ice

#16. Angela Wexler, person

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#17. Sunset Towers faced east and had no towers.

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#18. There's a famous quote I read somewhere. It says we are all given second chances every day of our lives. They are there for the taking, it's just that we don't usually take them.

Anonymous

#19. Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men ... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.

Samantha Harvey

#20. And no one drank just one shot of tequila.

Kristin Hannah

#21. The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

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#22. His voice reminded her [Azalea] of rich, thick cream, the sort one could add to any recipe to make it taste better.

Heather Dixon

#23. It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

#24. I don't care who does the electing, as long as I get to do the nominating.

Boss Tweed

#25. Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

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#26. Jake Wexler, standing or sitting when not lying down

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#27. Friday was back to normal, if the actions of suspicious would-be heirs competing for a two-hundred-million-dollar prize could be considered normal.

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#28. I just passed my identification crisis and came back to country music.

Gram Parsons

#29. Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake.

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#30. Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.

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#31. I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package-and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.

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