"I have come to understand myself as more of a New York writer, or more of a woman writer, but I don't feel like that while I'm writing. But I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here."

-- Sloane Crosley

#New York Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.”

Source : Andrew Hacker (2010). “Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
“If you can get through the first round you have a good chance of getting into the next one.”
“He'd made her feel what Barrons made me feel. Bigger than I could possibly be, larger than life, on fire with possibilities, ecstatic to be breathing, impatient for the next moment together. She'd been happy in those last months, so alive and happy.”
“I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.”
“A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.”
“Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it is your murderer, and the murderer of the world: use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you.”

Source : Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme”, p.549
“There are two sides to this Baptism: The first is, you possess the Spirit; The second is that the Spirit possesses you.”
“It was very flattering when Manolo Blahnik named a shoe after me.”

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