"Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?"

-- Fannie Hurst

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“Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a gift and therefore an echo of Godâ€™s life in us.”
“To this day, sheâ€™s still sad. Because thereâ€™s not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. Iâ€™m just saying that I took the pain that was inside of her at that moment and made it my own. And it didnâ€™t hurt me at all.”
“I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.”
“As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.”
“Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.”
“Good day, fair maidens.”
“A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.”
“The greatness of Ty Cobb was something that had to be seen, and to see him was to remember him forever.”

Source : "Ty Cobb". Book by Charles C. Alexander, 1984.

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