"I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me."

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Source : Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage

Elizabeth Smart

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“Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom; or by none; shall be renewed in hope, in confidence, in strength by waters welling up from its own sweet, perennial springs. Not from above; not by patronage of its aristocrats. The flower does not bear the root, but the root the flower.”
“I love my dad; I'm a daddy's girl, all the way.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Do you like people? Most people claim that they like people with, of course, a "few exceptions." When the exceptions are added together it becomes clear that they include a vast majority of the people. It becomes equally clear that most people like just a few people, their kind of people, and either do not actively care for or actively dislike most of the "other" people.”
“The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.”
“Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?”
“If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor.”

Source : Jennifer James (2008). “Thinking in the Future Tense”, p.175, Simon and Schuster
“But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?”
“It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.”

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