"Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is Fitzgeraldâ€™s masterwork but that it is the American masterwork, the finest work of fiction by any of this countryâ€™s writers."

-- Jonathan Yardley

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“I know there's a part of the feminist world that is like, "Hey, screw 'em, we'll do our own thing over here," and I can see there's a value in that. But a kind of nudgy part of me thinks: No. I want access, and I want my daughters to have access to the exact same thing, because we all know there's no such thing as separate but equal.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by the distant whistle of locomotives pounding through the night, by the caravans leaving on the Golden Road to Samarkand, by quinqueremes of Nineveh from distant Ophir . . . Our grandchildren will likewise have their inspiration-among the equatorial stars. They will be able to look up at the night sky and watch the stately procession of the Ports of Earth-the strange new harbors where the ships of space make their planetfalls and their departures.”
“Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.”
“Iâ€™m moved by everything broken and crippled. Since thatâ€™s how we really are.”
“Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.”
“I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.”

Source : "Sons of Anarchy's Maggie Siff is Over the Don Draper Type" by Justine Harman, www.elle.com. September 18, 2012.
“Scientists want full proof under laboratory conditions. And the answer is very simple: When Im put under pressure, I cant perform. Even the phenomenon Im most known for. When Im on stage, Im not under pressure and it happens. In other important places, it happens. But in a laboratory where I really want it to happen, its very hard for me.”
“Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our lives and steals our innocence, its finality leaves us unnaturally older. There are too many elderly young people.”

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