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“Classification of Christian children, as they plan it, are to be used as human sacrifice. Where? Within the black mass ceremonies, they will participate in any kind of sexual orgy, some to be kept as sexual slaves.”
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“True grace is natural, not artificial, because, however strenuously you strive to gain it, when it is gained it never gives the impression of effort or straining for effect.”
Source : Frederic Dan Huntington (1887). “Good Talking and Good Manners: Fine Arts, with a Paper on the Social Law of Mutual Help and the Labor Problem”
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“I have no desire to be hip to the latest black slang and do the stereotypical black thing. I was a Richard Pryor fan, and I have used profanity in my act. But when it becomes a whole thing that defines blacks, we're limiting ourselves. The enemy is us.”
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“It is hardly useful if you trustingly play through variation after variation from a book. It is a great deal more useful and more interesting if you take part actively in the analysis, find something yourself, and try to refute some of the author's conclusions.”
Source : Mark Dvoretsky (1991). “Secrets of Chess Training”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
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“If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I’ve read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods of undifferentiated flux or something in which I am reading about fifty, at a minimum, books at once, so of course I seldom finish one. Eventually this phase will pass, and I’ll discover I have about ten pages to go in all of them, and will sit down and systematically finish them, one after another.”
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“A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.”
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“Sometimes we have to be judged by our one-offs.”
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“One must be of one's time and paint what one sees.”
Source : "Edouard Manet: Symphony in off-white" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2011. 
