"A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The radio says it is eventually going to be sleet and rain, but I don't think so; I think it is just going to go on and on, coming down, until the whole world...etc. It has that look."

-- Edward Gorey

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“The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff...”
“Labels put people in boxes, and those boxes are shaped like coffins.”

Source : "Chirlane McCray: From Gay Trailblazer to Politician's Wife". Interview with Linda Villarosa, www.essence.com. May, 09, 2013.
“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”
“God does not waste an ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn't come our way for no reason, and He seems especially efficient at using what we endure to mold our character. If we are malleable, He takes our bumps and bruises and shapes them into something beautiful.”

Source : Frank E. Peretti (2003). “No More Bullies: For Those Who Wound or Are Wounded”, p.179, Thomas Nelson
“Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.”
“Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?”

Source : Richard Wright (1953). “The Outsider”, New York : Harper
“The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.”
“A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard.”

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