"Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down."

-- Terry Pratchett

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“Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not familiar.”
“If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.”
“The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.”
“The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.”
“One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.”

Source : Barbara Smith (1983). “Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology”, p.36, Rutgers University Press
“Not infrequently, Southern food now unlocks the rusty gates of race and class, age and sex. On such occasions, a place at the table is like a ringside seat at the historical and ongoing drama of life in the region.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity”
“It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.”

Source : Kenneth Grahame (2016). “Pagan Papers”, p.22, The Floating Press

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