"Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want."

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Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

C.E. Morgan

#Feelings Quotes #Mind Quotes #Literature Quotes

“The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.”
“Computers get better faster than anything else ever.”
“CD4 being the level of the lymphocyte that indicates the level of your immune function.”
“The silence was killing me. And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Keep quiet. Pretend nothing had happened, that nothing was wrong. And look how well that was turning out.”
“The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.”
“The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.”
“There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.”

Source : Edward Hoagland (1993). “The Courage of Turtles”, The Lyons Press
“I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race...If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible...”

Source : "Imperial racism". "The Story of Africa" by BBC World Service, www.bbc.co.uk. February 19, 2007.

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