"I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford."

-- James McBride

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“Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.”

Source : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2009). “The Palace of Illusions: A Novel”, p.167, Anchor
“My music came up from the soil of North Carolina,”
“As the thought comes to me to exorcise and transform this black with a white drawing, it has already become a surface.. .Now I have lost all fear, and begin to draw on the black surface.”
“Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.”
“Gotta watch out for directors.”
“The science supporting the relationship between carbohydrates and dementia is quite exciting, as it paves the way for lifestyle changes that can profoundly affect a persons chances of remaining intact, at least from a brain perspective.”
“Well, you put a little piece of yourself into every character that you do. Even if you're playing some psychotic person, which of course I'm not, some part of you is in that character and it's hopefully believable. I always come back to the fact that my own instinct is better than something I build in my mind.”
“By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.”

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