Quotes
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Renata Adler

"And then there were the wallflowers who had recognized for years that the thing was hopeless, who had found in that information a kind of calm. They no longer tried, with a bright and desperate effort, to sustain a conversation with somebody's brother, somebody's usher, somebody's roommate, somebody's roommate's usher's brother... The category of wallflower who had given up on all this was very quiet, not indifferent, only quiet. And she always brought a book."

-- Renata Adler

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“There is no greater threat to America than Islam.”
“I would prefer to let the president make the decisions that the president needs to make.”
“The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.”
“Often really what you need is someone who will believe in you, who will encourage you to believe in yourself.”

Source : "News Stream" with Kristie Lu Sout, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2014.
“I just think that pop music is very interesting in how it can reach so many people. I like that I can tell stories and I just wanted to be heard more, I guess. That's why it's pop, but in my mind I don't really view my music as pop, I don't really view it as anything. I just look at it as a picture, I like visuals.”
“I believe music is like medicine. Like a good tonic, it can open your mind, strengthen and possibly even cure you. Music can work on many levels, and nothing I know of possesses the healing force that exists within music.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“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

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