Quotes
Authors
Cornell Woolrich

"The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was granite, with a glistening line of sweat just below his hair line. He'd never forget this night, the detective knew, no matter what else happened for the rest of his life. They were all getting scars on their souls, the sort of scars people got in the Dark Ages, when they believed in devils and black magic. (Speak To Me Of Death)"

-- Cornell Woolrich

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“Genocide involves the attempt to achieve the disappearance of a group by whatever means. It does not have to be violent, it could be a combination of policies that would lead to a certain group dying out.”
“Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?”
“Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.”
“Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or else they can only think abstractively. Thinking in a truly rational dialectic between intuition and intellect is just beyond the reach of our nation of emotionalist helots. What prevails among us truly has to be called not thinking but "thinking," a pathetic surrogate for actual thinking for the benefit of existentially or modally crippled mentalities.”
“Twilight whippoorwill... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness”
“Your deeper sense isnâ€™t a springboard; itâ€™s a landing place. If you draw conclusions too quickly or too slowly, youâ€™ll establish your self where it doesnâ€™t belong. The fine line between the two is in your own deeper sense. It is in your actual knowing within that deeper sense.”
“The mad person who knows that they are mad is close to sanity.”
“Players dont win championships, organizations do!”

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