"If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar,"

-- Jimmie Davis

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“Sometimes I think it is ... frustration with life as it is lived day to day that compels me to write such long letters to people who seldom reply in kind, if indeed they reply at all. Somehow by compressing and editing the events of my life, I infuse them with a dramatic intensity totally lacking at the time, but oddly enough I find that years later what I remember is not the event as I lived it but as I described it in a letter.”

Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.168, Penguin
“Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.”
“Protestants are the more segmented group. Mainline churches - you have problems in the U.S., Europe, the Scottish Church, the Dutch Protestant Church, the state church in Norway. The evangelicals have been pro Israel, but a major effort is to bring them in on the Palestinian side. A huge problem and the problems are rising.”
“It disturbs me mostly...is the willful, deliberate denial (by the FDA, of) our own citizens, a fair chance to use Laetrile, when all the record (shows) it is not toxic, ... is safe, ... and is effective.”
“I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy.”
“It doesn't take a year to sing a song. Takes a year for people to figure out how to market it.”
“The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space-each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.”
“Mothers know the difference between a broth and a consommÃ©. And the difference between damask and chintz. And the difference between vinyl and Naugahyde. And the difference between a house and a home. And the difference between a romantic and a stalker. And the difference between a rock and a hard place.”

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