"The motive power of democracy is love"

-- Henri Bergson

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“But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.”
“I’m not much of a fly tier. I can do it—my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying'—and I tie some cool flies that I can’t buy in a fly shop, but other than that, I would no more sit down and tie a dozen hopper patterns than I would do something absolutely insane, like build a rod.”
“We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the leading women's rights advocates gained experience as organizers and lecturers.”
“I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.”
“He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.”
“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”

Source : Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.126, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.”

Source : John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.433, Wordsworth Editions
“I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.”

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