"They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!"

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Source : Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.44, Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly

#Would Be Quotes #Faults Quotes #Prison Quotes

“I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria.”
“There's no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?”
“The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.”
“In golf, just because a person is big and cut and ripped, doesn't mean they have a physical advantage.”
“Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.”
“I pierced one nipple. Not both. Just one. She has it in the books and I wanted to get as many of the piercings as I could, and I spent so much time on this film naked, and I just had to be really comfortable with that right away . . . I'm gonna keep it for now. I don't want to have to repierce that should we do the other two films.”
“As a customer service representative; I deal with people all day. Some really are guilty of not paying their bill.”
“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”

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