"When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear."

-- Mary Doria Russell

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“History is a science, no more and no less.”
“I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap.”
“Culture isn't all just about what can be tweaked and twitched in the simplest possible way. As people move around, they literally don't see what's around them, because they're wedded to earworms that are burrowing into their heads endlessly in a kind of negotiation with these tiny screens.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.”
“Be glad you're even alive.' Be furious you're going to die.”
“Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.”
“Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover; A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year; The spring begins before the winter's over.”

Source : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.17, Kent State University Press
“Speaking as somebody who has been happily married for 35 years, I can't imagine any choice more consequential for a lifelong journey than the choice of a traveling companion.”

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