"Coercion. The unpardonable crime."

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Source : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1938). “Pilgrimage”

Dorothy Richardson

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“Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.”
“American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.”
“It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government--not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.”

Source : Fred Rodell (1986). “55 Men, Story of Constitution”, p.22, Stackpole Books
“My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.”
“Only in a novel are all things given full play.”
“Can we just call them storm spirits?â€ Leo asked. â€œVenti makes them sound like evil espresso drinks.”
“You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him”
“I take a lot of pitches. Some guys hate to do that.”

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