"Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?"

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Source : Gene Stratton-Porter (2015). “Laddie: A True Blue Story”, p.17, Xist Publishing

Gene Stratton-Porter

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“I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.”
“If you come, you better come in force because I will kill every single one of you. My hand won't shake, my aim won't falter. My face will be the last thing you'll see before you die." I jammed my knife into the table and walked out.”
“But then, how could you have any self-respect knowing that you didn't believe in anything exactly? How did you embrace what was yours if you didn't leave something for it? How did you create a life of meaning and pride?”
“In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.”
“What does it feel like to get shot?" "I don't recommend it," said Nellie in a controlled voice. "Chocolate is definitely better.”
“Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected by historians childhood history, content analysis of historical imagery, and so on suddenly expand from the periphery to the center of the psychohistorian's conceptual world, simply because his or her own new questions require material nowhere to be found in history books.”

Source : "Foundations of Psychohistory". Book by Lloyd deMause, 1982.
“England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.”
“Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.”

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