“There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.”

Interview with The Guardian http://www.acrylicafternoons.com/guardian99.html (1999)

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Dawud Wharnsby (1972) Canadian musician

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“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Variant: Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

“I'm telling you right now, we're going to write fairer rules for the middle class and we are going to raise taxes on the middle class!”

Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady

Clinton: 'Raise Taxes On The Middle Class!' 8-1-2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ua13_gYQn0; as quoted in "Hillary Promises ‘We Are Going To Raise Taxes On The Middle Class’ <nowiki>[Video http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/03/hillary-promises-we-are-going-to-raise-taxes-on-the-middle-class-video/</nowiki>"] by Derek Hunter, The Daily Caller (3 August 2016). <br class="br">Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016)

“It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“Anyway…I find what you write interesting.”

Ken MacLeod book Learning the World

“That’s what people usually say when they disagree with it.”
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 7 “Television” (p. 110)

“The success of the middle class alliance depended on the acceptance by the working class element of middle class leadership and middle class ideas.”

Hugh Gaitskell (1906–1963) British politician

Chartism: An Introductory Essay (1929), p. 85

“I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.”

Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady

Economic policy speech, May 29, 2007. http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/speech/view/?id=1839 <br class="br">Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)

“The late Middle Ages not merely has a successful middle class—it is in fact a middle-class period.”

Arnold Hauser (1892–1978) Hungarian art historian

The Social History of Art, Volume I. From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages, 1999, Chapter IV. The Middle Ages

“I am not writing for those who do not believe that there is such a thing as clairvoyance, nor am I seeking to convince those who are in doubt about the matter… I am addressing myself to the better-instructed class who know that clairvoyance exists, and are sufficiently interested in the subject to be glad of information as to its methods and possibilities; and I would assure them that what I write is the result of much careful study and experiment.”

Charles Webster Leadbeater book Clairvoyance

Clairvoyance (1903), Chapter One

“There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.”

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