"Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent."

--

John Shelton Reed

#Atlanta Quotes #Southern Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“I don't look for bliss, just contentment.”
“London has become really boring. I mean, years ago, London was really happening - there was swinging London and then punk. It was really different from other cities, and so I'd always wanted to go there and see what was actually going on. After that, hip-hop was the next thing happening, so to get the records or the proper clothing, you really had to actually go to New York. But now you don't really need to go.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“After all, everyone's favorite subject is themselves.”

Source : Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game and Rules of the Game”, p.55, Canongate Books
“Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.”
“The Higher Power knows what to do and how to do it. Trust it.”
“I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.”
“I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love me.”
“Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not have socially or politically, or of course economically, in the world at large.”

Source : "Do Books Matter?". Book edited by Brian Baumfield, 1973.

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