"Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace."

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

“AS for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them”
“Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.”

Source : Nella Larsen (2014). “Quicksand & Passing”, p.27, Serpent's Tail
“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
“No nation has ever prospered or been blessed like the colored people in the South.”
“In life, there are no shortcuts to joy. Anything that is worth pursuing requires us to suffer just a little bit.”
“I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.”
“Somebody threw a book at President Obama. If you're trying to scare a president by throwing a book at him, you're one president too late.”
“I would say that what the value of talking about and thinking about a dome over Manhattan is that [Buckminster] Fuller has identified a scale of action I think is actually really compelling.”

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