"...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct."

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Source : Jim Fergus (2010). “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd”, p.84, Macmillan

Jim Fergus

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Odd Quotes

“For me, the only drag about the whole thing is that a lot of my childhood friends had to be relocated to the outskirts of New York because of the gentrification. But I think it's always a good thing when you bring people of all different backgrounds together, that's sort of what New York is.”
“Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging.”

Source : "The Joke's On... Lawyers" by Stan D. Ross, Federation Press, (p. 43), 1996.
“Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourselves of all feeling of pity. We must annihilate the Jews wherever we find them and wherever it is possible in order to maintain there the structure of the Reich as a whole...”
“When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section.”
“I would like to comment on the God fiber within each living thing. This essence, this fiber of love and grace, runs in every vein, no matter how deeply buried. Each person has a God fiber, whatever their actions or hurt they have caused you or others.”
“I guess both Nabokov and Popper had, in different ways, immunized me against the fashion for French-influenced literary theory in the '70s, '80s, and '90s - "immunized" in the sense that they made me no longer susceptible to this epidemic cultural virus. I looked into Derrida and found that he rarely seemed to be interested in truth; he was more interested in making a splash.”
“I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself.”
“You can do ANYTHING you want to do-This is your World”

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