"State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy."

-- Ernie Fletcher

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“Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure.”

Source : Sophia Lee (2015). “The Recess”, p.97, University Press of Kentucky
“If you ever got me, you wouldn't have a clue what to do with me.”
“Be pleased with your real garden, don't persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as long as the shutter snap.”
“Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.”
“A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb; By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd, Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.”
“I'm a huge pasta and pizza lover. I can eat those every single day.”
“Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the spirit have always nourished the screamers, the eccentrics, the pseudo-Whitmans, the calculating terrorists?”

Source : Alfred Kazin (2013). “On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.”

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