"But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall."

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Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “In the Absence of Angels: Stories”, p.88, Open Road Media

Hortense Calisher

#Memories Quotes #Wreaths Quotes #Emphasis Quotes

“The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad.”
“A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands, her bosom, her knees, her hair, her lithe and flowing clothes ... has acquired a delicacy of skin, a refinement of tone, a kind of androgyny without which the toughest and most virile of geniuses remains, when it comes to artistic perfection, an incomplete being.”
“Anybody who gets away with something will come back to get away with a little bit more.”
“I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.”
“There is a feminist proverb I learned from my mother: The personal is political. There's a powerful literary stereotype that men write about war and politics and public life, while women confine themselves to family and food and personal life.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.”
“Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession.”

Source : Cordelia Fine (2005). “Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences”, p.46, Icon Books Ltd
“Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there!”

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