"I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me."

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Source : Jesse Stuart (1975). “My World”, p.37, University Press of Kentucky

Jesse Stuart

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“Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.”
“It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.”

Source : William Cobbett (1817). “Cobbett's Weekly Political Register”
“I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.”
“He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the worldâ€™s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the worldâ€™s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.268, Pan Macmillan
“As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.”
“The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . . . the blindness of the unpitiful - these were my terrors. But not the crash of thunder overhead, not the bolts of fire from the clouds.”
“I've been really supported by my family and my wife. She really understands what I do, but it doesn't get any easier when you get away all the time and so I'm trying to find the balance.”

Source : "There's Something About Joel Plaskett". stickymagazine.com. October 11, 2013.
“On tour, its either call ex-boyfriends or tweet a lot. Youre just looking for any proof that youre not completely alone.”

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