"I remember how often some of us walked out of the darkness of the Lower East Side and into the brilliant sunlight of Washington Square."

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Source : Harry Golden (1967). “The Best of Harry Golden”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

Harry Golden

#New York Quotes #Squares Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.”
“As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements than they do words.”
“I certainly would like to prevent, if I could legally, anybody having an abortion, a rich woman, a middle-class woman, or a poor woman. Unfortunately, the only vehicle available is the…Medicaid bill.”

Source : "40 Years After Roe v. Wade, We Still Fall Short of Reproductive Justice" by Terry O'Neill, www.usnews.com. January 18, 2013.
“I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.”
“Forgiveness involves pardon. Basically, that is like erasing their offenses toward us from a marking board. We immediately wash their offenses away like a wave washing away a message in the sand. Second, forgiveness involves caring for the offending person because most people who offend us have something in their own heart that needs healing. When we forgive others, they are released from our anger and we are healed by God.”
“To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual.”
“President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.”
“You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!”

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