"Coincidence means only a connection that's not seen. Roots meet underground."

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Source : Charlotte Armstrong (2018). “The Dream Walker”, p.109, Head of Zeus Ltd

Charlotte Armstrong

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“The Jews of the shtetls that Tolstoy remembered were saints... the people I photographed were saints. So now, in 1983, I tell the world: When you learn about Goethe, don't forget to study the Holocaust, too.”

Source : "Testament to a Lost People" by Herbert Mitgang, New York Times, www.nytimes.com. October 2, 1983.
“The faith I was born into formed me.”
“To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.”
“During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows. How come the government never does anything like this with lawyers?”
“Write 100 things that you love about your partner. It's another way of keeping yourself in check. It's hard to do.”
“I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.”
“The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.”

Source : James Hervey, William ROMAINE (1812). “Meditations and Contemplations ... To which is prefixed the life of the author: and a sermon on his death by the Rev. W. Romaine ... With ... engravings, etc. [With a portrait.]”, p.284
“If you look back on the period, the 1980s has never been seen as cool. You think of the music, and it always has a kitsch quality to it because everyone looks so ridiculous. Even the Nineties, with The Stone Roses and other bands, was cool before the Eighties. It really missed the boat! The Sixties was always cool, even then. That was my Dad's era and I was always jealous of that. But now, as an adult, looking back, we were part of this mental time. It was the most enormous amount of tribes that could have ever existed in one place.”

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