"Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger."

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Source : James Branch Cabell (2012). “Jurgen”, p.27, Courier Corporation

James Branch Cabell

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“I did not imagine that pregnant women were 'naturally' any more sensitive or exalted than people in any other condition; only it seemed as if - perhaps because we are in such a twilight state, a melting down and reconstituting of the self - there was more opportunity to hear strains from what must be the other side, the moral music of the sphere.”
“My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.”
“But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.”
“No news is good news. No journalists is even better.”
“Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.”
“After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.”
“Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.”

Source : "'Expecting Better' pregnancy advice" by Emily Oster, www.cnn.com. August 28, 2013.
“The only way I'm interested in having a baby is the old-fashioned way.”

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