"I have already told you Father, more than once: Iâ€™m not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, Iâ€™m not going to bury myself in some planterâ€™s kitchen, and Iâ€™m not going to be a servant to some doctor or lawyer in IlhÃ©us. I want to live my own life. When I finish school at the end of the year, I want to go to work in an office"

-- Jorge Amado

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“I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.”
“I do not love thee less for what is done, And cannot be undone. Thy very weakness Hath brought thee nearer to me, and henceforth My love will have a sense of pity in it, Making it less a worship than before.”
“And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference. Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.”
“I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.”
“Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path.”
“Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!”
“Jack didnâ€™t fully get Jesus. Audrey tried to explain it, and he could repeat it back to her, word for word, but he still didnâ€™t comprehend most of it. The best he could gather was that Jesus lived long ago, told people to be nice, and they killed him for it. At the end, he asked who was Jesusâ€™ necromancer and if he was in the Bible, then Kaldar couldnâ€™t stop laughing and had to sit down.”
“Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class.”

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