"The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness."

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Alice Walker

#Long Quotes #Accommodations Quotes #Protect Quotes

“Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'”
“Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.”
“Drinking in a honky tonk, just kicking hippies ***** and raising hell.”

Source : Song: Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother
“You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker.”
“Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.”
“What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.”
“The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.”
“I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.”

Source : Speaking to Colorado Governor Evans, Colonel Chivington, Major Wynkoop and others in Denver (Autumn 1864), as quoted in "The Boy's Book about Indians : Being What I Saw and Heard for Three Years on the Plains" by Edmund Bostwick Tuttle, p. 61, 1873.

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