"America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul."

-- Anais Nin

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“Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because they are out of reach; as holiday music from within a prison wall--or sunshine seen through the bars; more prized because unattainable--more bright because of the contrast of present darkness and solitude, whence there is no escape.”
“The first generation of school reformers I talk about - nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher - they are true believers in their vision for public education. They have a missionary zeal. And this to me connects them a lot to folks today, whether it's education activist Campbell Brown or former D.C. public schools chancellor Michelle Rhee. It's a righteous sense, a reform push that's driven by a strong belief in a particular set of solutions.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.”
“A grandma is old on the outside and young on the inside.”
“In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase.”
“I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me.”
“I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart - so hard, it hurt me. A hundred times I almost rose, almost went in to her; a hundred times I thought, Go to her! Why are you waiting? Go back to her side! But every time, I thought of what would happen if I did. I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.”

Source : Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.153, Penguin
“Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.”

Source : "Denmark elects its first female prime minister" by Jan M. Olsen and Karl Ritter, www.sfgate.com. September 16, 2011.

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