Smohalla Summary Quotes

#1. Culture feeds on the sap of economics, and a material surplus is necessary, so that culture may grow, develop and become subtle.

Leon Trotsky

#2. Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.

Diane Ackerman

#3. Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be.

Gareth Gates

#4. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

Kenny G

#5. The amount of perfume she had on was like a human sacrifice on Incense Night.

Stephen Moles

#6. Someone's boyfriend died in a rock-climbing accident in Switzerland: everyone gathered around her, on fire with tragedy. Their dramatic shows up support underpinned with jealousy- bad luck was rare enough to be glamorous.

Emma Cline

#7. Isolated patches of wild land are valuable to know, as are isolated people.

Richard Louv

#8. I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

William Weld

#9. [ ... ] and every time she says the word, it breaks her heart into pieces that she has to pick up in her hands and shove back in her chest.

Rene Denfeld