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Felix S. Cohen

"It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history without contemporary significance. In fact, the Indian plays much the same role in our society that the Jews played in Germany. Like the minerâ€™s canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, reflects the rise and fall in our democratic faith."

-- Felix S. Cohen

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“I think that I write much more naturally about characters in solitude than characters interacting with others. My natural inclination - and one that I've learned to push against - is to give primacy to a character's interior world. Over the three books that I've written, I've had to teach myself that not every feeling needs to be described and that often the most impactful writing more elegantly evokes those unnamed feelings through the way characters speak and behave.”
“I can't stand that - those women in 'Waiting to Exhale' now. I can't stand them. But that's because I'm 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with it.”
“Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful.”

Source : Maureen Dowd (2006). “Are Men Necessary When Sexes Collide”
“Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.”
“Tomorrow gives a beck'ning hand-- I turn my face away; I'll not invite her to my home-- I only love Today.”
“In a country like America, there are places, many states here still where coming out means you lose your job, where coming out means division, where it means potentially abuse.”

Source : Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.
“Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.”

Source : Eric Burns (1995). “The Joy of Books: Confessions of a Lifelong Reader”
“By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off.”

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