"Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations."

-- Michel de Montaigne

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
“Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”
“By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.”
“Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior's] speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I seen" ever escaped the keen ears of his eldest sister, who immediately corrected him. Mother sometimes thought Katherine a little severe when, in the interest of proper speaking, she would stop him in the midst of an exciting account of a home-run. There were times, thought Mother, when the spirit of the thing was so much more important than the flesh in which it was clothed.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1999). “The Collected Short Works, 1920-1954”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press
“This boy has negative charisma. He walks into a room and the oxygen starts to evaporate. I guess that's why girls sleep with him. They find his awfulness transfixing. He's like a lousy 1970's disaster movie that they can't bring themselves to turn off, even though it is making their life worse every minute they leave it on.”
“But I bear witness to Christ, too. I really know him to be the savior of the world. And that means more to me than almost anything else I know.”
“Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.”
“Your love taught me to grieve and I have been needing, for centuries a woman to make me grieve for a woman, to cry upon her arms like a sparrow for a woman to gather my pieces like shards of broken crystal”

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