"All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get."

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Source : Brenna Yovanoff (2011). “The Replacement”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

Brenna Yovanoff

#Mean Quotes #Intention Quotes

“After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.”
“Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No matter where on earth one was born, to become heir to Western civilization's ancestry, one need only pledge allegiance to reason and individual liberty-the civilized, life-affirming values that represent the "West at its best."”
“I think then I may safely conclude and I firmly believe that American slavery is not only not a sin but especially commanded by God through Moses and approved by Christ through His Apostles.”

Source : David Christy, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, William Harper, Thornton Stringfellow, James Henry Hammond (1860). “Cotton is king”, p.636
“Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.”
“Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong.”
“It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are, keepers of the absent and the dead. It is the blessing and burden of being alive.”

Source : Camilla Gibb (2007). “Sweetness in the Belly”, p.248, Penguin
“If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today.”

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