"The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy."

-- Charles Lamb

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“Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everythign lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.”

Source : Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.215, Penguin
“I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages”
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”
“My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think”
“I'm kind of an emotional exhibitionist.”
“The Bible is to your soul what bread is to your body. You need it daily. One good meal does not suffice for a lifetime.”
“Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine skylarking and chiacking about for one day, one clear, clean, sweet day in a good world in the midst of our living. Yachts run before an unfelt gust with bagnecked pelicans riding above them, the city their twitching backdrop, all blocks and points of mirror light down to the water's edge.”
“for the first time I tasted this tropical fruit, which people here are so fond of. ... I could have fancied I was biting into soap. I have a notion that we shall not become very good friends, the banana and I.”

Source : Fredrika Bremer, Adolph Benson, Carrie Catt (2007). “America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer”, p.98, Applewood Books

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