"Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?"

--

Source : Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

Alice Sebold

“When women work on reclaiming the lost part of themselves, they're also working on reclaiming the lost soul of the culture as well.”
“Ability to have that sort of feedback loop with your readers to me felt incredibly powerful.”
“It's not only hockey, it's every sport. You know, it's a big event.”
“The tear, down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose; When next the summer breeze comes by And waves the bush, the flower is dry.”
“I'm not a dishwasher anymore. But I'm still from Sangamon Street.”
“No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.”
“The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. Heâ€”or sheâ€”is the new mainstream.”

Source : Richard Florida (2014). “The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded”, p.7, Basic Books
“The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.”

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