"I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack."

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Source : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

Dawn Powell

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“Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so. And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself.”
“For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.”
“I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.”

Source : "'I Know What I Stand For'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2009.
“The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.”
“Ive been fortunate to be short my entire life. Theres only one position Ive ever had to play, and thats point guard. So Ive always had to be that leader. And that was my job: you know, to talk.”
“Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever.”

Source : "Space Chantey" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 2), 1968.
“I had orgasms with clients, even though it was kind of a taboo at that time to admit it. Women weren't supposed to enjoy sex that much!”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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