"There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it."

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation”

Source : George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press
“Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that!”
“Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.”

Source : 1922 De Stijl, vol.6.
“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do”

Source : Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen”, p.369, Cosimo, Inc.
“When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had been. His smile was the only piece of baggage he had carried with him from boyhood into manhood.”
“I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going to take off her clothes - again?”
“I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.”
“You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.”

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