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“Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.”
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“Success is about happiness and security, rather than hitting any particular sort of job or rung on the career ladder.”
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“If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.”
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“It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.”
Source : Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”
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“My salvation has very little to do with anything that I have done... Jesus will go to any lengths to draw us to himself.”
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“As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.”
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“Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional period is on the way out. What we have instead is a small island of new free music surrounded by some good reworkings of past idioms and a vast sargasso sea of absolute garbage.”
Source : Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.74, Anchor
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“On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.”
Source : Greg Egan (2009). “Crystal Nights and Other Stories”, Subterranean
