"The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid."

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W. H. Auden

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“You push the button, we do the rest.”

Source : "Picture of a pioneer" by Nicholas Bannister, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2000.
“When you love someone . . .”
“When white Americans frankly peel back the layers of our commingled pasts, we are all marked by it. Whether a company or an individual, we are marred either by our connections to the specific crimes and injuries of our fathers and their fathers. Or we are tainted by the failures of our fathers to fulfill our national credos when their courage was most needed. We are formed in molds twisted by the gifts we received at the expense of others. It is not our â€œfault.â€ But it is undeniably our inheritance.”

Source : Douglas A. Blackmon (2009). “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II”, p.394, Anchor
“Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.”
“The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.”
“The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.”
“My summary of all our experiences was that it showed that heaven and hell are one place, and we all go there. To those who are prepared, it is heaven; to those who are not fit and ready, it is hell.”
“I donâ€™t know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us.”

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