"The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First."

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Source : John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.16, Anza Publishing

John Sergeant Wise

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“Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.”

Source : "Love For Outsiders; Jacques Audiard On The Romantic Thriller 'Read My Lips'". Interview with Andrea Meyer, www.indiewire.com. July 09, 2002.
“The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.”
“Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks.”

Source : Teju Cole (2011). “Open City: A Novel”, p.11, Random House
“I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.”
“The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.”
“It is not easy to be honest because it is impossible to be complete.”

Source : Ariana Reines (2006). “The Cow”
“My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly bowl their way to oblivion.”
“A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican.”

Source : "The Pelican". Poem by Dixon Lanier Merritt, 1910.

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