"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“One must be able to say at all times--instead of points, straight lines, and planes--tables, chairs, and beer mugs”
“Don't operate on the heart with a hatchet.”
“Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.”

Source : Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.368, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
“Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too the terms with which they are connected to other people.”
“Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don't see a whole lot of that any more.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into the starscape of history's night. The materials of memoir are humble, fugitive, a cottage knitting industry seeking narrative truth across the crevasse of time as autobiography folds itself into the vast, fluid essay that is history. A single voice singing its aria in a corner of the crowded world.”
“As soon as you recognize that you are able to control your thoughts, happiness will come within your reach.”
“Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.”

Source : Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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