"It can happen anytime, anywhere. I mean, you don't have to be in front of stuff that's going to make a good photograph. It's possible anywhere."

-- Henry Wessel, Jr.

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“We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.”

Source : Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.6, Bantam
“The best thing about serial drama - especially about screwball comedy - is blocked love.”

Source : Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.
“She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You won't find Prim." At her name, he perks up. Raises his flattened ears. Begins to meow hopefully. "Get out!" He dodges the pillow I throw at him. "Go away! There's nothing left for you here!" I start to shake, furious with him. "She's not coming back! She's never ever coming back here again!" I grab another pillow and get to my feet to improve my aim. Out of nowhere, the tears begin to pour down my cheeks. "She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead.”
“Ordinary won't change the world.”
“The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God reduced to the role of cramped advocate of current national policy. Surely the pages of history are replete and the examples in many a foreign country convincing that this kind of church-state union-whatever the original motives, or however noble the original purposes-winds up with a state that is less than stable and a church that is less than sanctified, and with the poor still hungry.”
“In dance, even the weakest can do wonders.”
“it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.”

Source : Edna O'Brien (1974). “A Scandalous Woman, and Other Stories”
“Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.”

Source : Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.53, Delacorte Press

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