"I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society."

-- Anna Quindlen

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“Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows. Its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of the race. It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table and who has been sheltered in labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace.”

Source : Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.
“Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.”
“What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it.”

Source : "Allan Houston's biggest swish". Interview with Jared Zwerling, www.espn.com. October 19, 2011.
“Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred is the most malignant poison that can afflict the mind. It freezes up the fount of inspiration and chills the higher faculties of the soul.”

Source : Kelly Miller (1908). “Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America”
“People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized and read poetry; it was one of the things you were forced to learn. Now it has tiny role in school.”

Source : "Campbell McGrath on Poetry, Walt Whitman and Schaefer Beer" by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, www.wsj.com. March 01, 2008.
“The fierce words of Jesus addressed to the Pharisees of His day stretch across the bands of time. Today they are directed not only to fallen televangelists but to each of us. We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others. They are to be taken personally by each of us. This is the form and shape of Christian Pharisaism in our time. Hypocrisy is not hte prerogative of people in high places. The most impoverished among us is capable of it. Hypocrisy is the natural expression of what is meanest in us all.”
“It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.”
“Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.”

Source : Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.124, Vintage

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