"I do not see any beauty in self-restraint."

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Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.128, Petrarca Press

Mary MacLane

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“Show me a person who sees himself negatively and I will show you a person who sees others in a negative way.”
“Jesus called His followers to be a lot of things, but I have yet to find where He warned us to be safe.”

Source : Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark (2012). “Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption”, p.19, Simon and Schuster
“I am pregnant with song. My body aches but do not betray me. I will sing songs and hide them away. I will tear them into bits and throw them in the street. The streets of my city are full of dark holes. I will hide my songs in the holes of the streets.”

Source : Sherwood Anderson (2006). “Mid-American Chants”, p.1, Quale Press
“If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.”
“For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.”
“My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.”
“A delicate thought is a flower of the mind.”
“It seems like every new corner we turn, the Rockefellers are already there. And in some cases, they have been there for a long, long time.”

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