"Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever."

-- Alexander H. Stephens

#Ideas Quotes #Forever Quotes #Independence Quotes

“[A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. Not to have a national anthem would be logical.”
“some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. Everything went past without me.”

Source : Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.65, Anchor
“I always stay in the urban comedy genre because it just never gets old. It's one of those things that people watch, again and again. This is that kind of movie. It gives you longevity.”
“In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.”

Source : Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult
“Much better than the feeling of having things is the feeling of having earned things.”
“And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.”

Source : Anita Loos (1951). “A Mouse is Born”
“I just can't sit back and wallow, In my own sorrow, but I know one fact: I'll be one tough act to follow.”
“I lied. I do that, you know, when it suits me. I would have thought you'd realized that by now.”

Source : Anne Stuart (2012). “The Devil's Waltz”, p.347, Harlequin

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