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Kathryn Stockett

"There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segregation. For the dishonesty upon which a society is founded makes every emotion suspect, makes it impossible to know whether what flowed between two people was honest feeling or pity or pragmatism.(Howell Raines's Pulitzer Prize winning article "Grady's Gift")-Sockett admired this quote and used it in her summary..."

Source : Kathryn Stockett (2011). “The Help”, p.688, Penguin UK

Kathryn Stockett

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“There's a fantastic, thousand-page book by David Thomson about [David O. Selznick]. Again, it's not the best argument or the best advertisement for his story, because most people aren't going to read a thousand-page book. But I feel like the rise and fall and the work [Mayer] produced - not just the movies, but the memos, the volume of writing - he's just so passionate, and that's really exciting.”

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“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
“The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus ***** boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.”
“Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.”
“You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law.”
“Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.”
“The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her.”

Source : John Norman (2011). “Beasts of Gor: Gor”, p.147, Hachette UK
“Who are your heroes? Why do you look up to them? Why do we respect those who live and think for themselves as opposed to doing what is expected? We all admire the idea of living a life unbound by thoughts of fear. People who seem to live that dream inspire us to want to do the same. They mirror the qualities that we possess but are too scared to access.”

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