"Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens."

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Source : Sir Leslie Stephen (1875). “Hours in a Library”, p.227

Leslie Stephen

#Hawthorne Quotes #Kind Quotes #Delirium Quotes

“When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.”
“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.”
“Raphael continued to stare at me, in no hurry to get started. "You know the best way to get rid of a demon, right?" He asked with a serious face. I caught Ivy rolling her eyes as I shook my head. "Exorcise alot!" Ivy caught my expression of dismay. "It's okay, Beth. He's famous for his bad jokes. We're still waiting for him to grow up." "And like Peter Pan, I hope to avoid that at all costs.”
“Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world. [Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.]”
“Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.”
“Some people try to say I'm British by the way I'm speaking. But I think I'm more Canadian, because I speak really slow. Midwestern and Canadian.”
“Sometimes my humor does offend people, and I've said it before: I don't write jokes to be offensive. I write jokes to be funny, and I guess what I find funny are things that other people sometimes find offensive. I would love nothing more than to never offend anyone, but it just doesn't seem to work out that way.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.
“I love working on 'Glee,' and I hope that there are more and more parts for me and other actors with Down syndrome in television and in movies so I can keep working for a long, long time.”

Source : "Actors with Down syndrome in more films, TV; 'Glee' star Lauren Potter says 'we're just like anybody else'" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. November 20, 2012.

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