"The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again"

-- George Santayana

#Doe Quotes #Remember Quotes

“He is mad, bad and dangerous to know.”

Source : Writing of Byron in her journal after their first meeting at a ball in March, 1812: Elizabeth Jenkins 'Lady Caroline Lamb' (1932) ch. 6.
“To my daughter I will say, â€˜when the men come, set yourself on fire.â€™”
“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.”
“True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.”
“The best sex takes place in the mind first”
“My daddy says that when you do somethin' to distract you from your worstest fears, it's like whistlin' past the graveyard. You know, making a racket to keep the scaredness and the ghosts away. He says that's how we get by sometimes. But it's not weak, like hidin'...it's strong. It means you're able to go on.”

Source : "Whistling Past the Graveyard". Book by Susan Crandall, 2014.
“The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a rabble of insane monastics to be dragged to a violent death.... Man has made himself a law unto himself, publishing it in his pretended "heavenly" revelations, dogmas, and statutes. Woman is not constructing a law unto herself, and she is putting it forth, not on a pretendedly supernatural, but on a natural basis.”
“An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative prose, A Bit of Difference bristles with penknife-sharp dialogue, but its truths are more subtle, hiding in the unspoken. Ultimately, A Bit of Difference explores â€“ with a hint of mischiefâ€“the problem of how to look like you have no problems when you have abundant problemsâ€“the universal problem of the socially-motivated classes.”

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