"The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks."

-- Randall Jarrell

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“Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.”
“What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.”
“If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.”
“The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.”

Source : Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.232, University of Illinois Press
“Every increase in knowledge requires an increase in wisdom”
“The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies.”
“I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.”
“America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.”

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