"...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right."

-- Laura Lippman

#War Quotes #Gay Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try.”
“I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.”
“Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.”

Source : Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton
“Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring the human brain. We are literally upgrading our minds by downloading the mind of Christ.”
“People forget what they want to forget.”
“Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring.”
“If you want to do something you have to imagine it. If you donâ€™t imagine it, it will never happen”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 28, 2013
“Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.”

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