"I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger."

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Alissa Nutting

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“At the piping of all hands,When the judgment-signal's spread-When the islands and the landsAnd the seas give up their dead,And the South and North shall come;When the sinner is dismayed,And the just man is afraid,Then Heaven be thy aid,Poor Tom.”

Source : John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (1846). “The Poems of John G.C. Brainard: A New and Authentic Collection, with an Original Memoir of His Life”, p.70
“We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.”
“When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.”

Source : Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada
“When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.”
“What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.”
“There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.”
“Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.”
“An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself”

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