"I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country."

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Source : Sarah Patton Boyle (2016). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition”, p.115, Pickle Partners Publishing

Sarah-Patton Boyle

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“I see that a number of persons might consider it appropriate to take the ECB as a possible scapegoat and I think that is not the case at all.”
“Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.”
“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”

Source : Samuel Lover (1839). “Rory O'More. Revised”, p.151
“She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm standing by the door and I look over at the Elvis Costello poster, at his eyes, watching her, watching us, and I try to get her away from it, so I tell her to come over here, sit down, and she thinks I want to hug her or something and she comes over to me and puts her arms around my back and says something like 'I think we've all lost some sort of feeling.”
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”

Source : Gravity's Rainbow episode 28 (1973)
“Necessity knows no rules.”
“Women are not attracted to men who are good looking - they are attracted to men who are attractive.”
“In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.”

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