"There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for it."

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Source : "Why Author Kathryn Harrison Wants Her Writing to 'Destroy Your Equilibrium'". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.oprah.com. November 2014.

Kathryn Harrison

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“Couples who make it aren't the ones who never had a reason to get divorced; they are simply the ones who decided early on that their commitment to each other was always going to be bigger than their differences and their flaws.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dave Willis from Mar 09, 2017
“I need to be able to explain myself in context.”
“When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think”

Source : "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", 1989.
“Blood trickles from my throat, on to Kate's white nightgown. She screams at the sight. 'Jarrod, you're bleeding!' 'I'm all right, don't struggle I won't let it get to you.”

Source : Marianne Curley (2012). “Old Magic”, p.149, A&C Black
“If there is a class war - and there is - it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones.”

Source : "Conservative Essays" by M. Cowling, Cassell, ("The Present Position"), 1978.
“When you talk about state of the art, that doesn't mean a damn thing. Think about it. State of the art. "This is the state of the art brush from Winsor-Newton." Yeah, but the state of the art sucks rubber donkey lungs.”
“Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.”
“Some people try deliberately to exploit the colonial hangover for their own purpose, to serve an external force. To us, Communism is as bad as imperialism.”

Source : "The Fate of Africa" by Martin Meredith, (p. 266), 1964.

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