"Suppose you had a cross burning in a play or a movie... Would that be intimidating?"

-- Sandra Day O'Connor

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“I first read [Wendell Berry] short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me." They just knocked my socks off. The characters and the fellowship of the small town reminded me of my own small town in Illinois.Then I discovered that, much like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, that all of Berry's fiction was centered in this same town.”
“The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, Remember, it's all about likeability.”
“You should not be misled about the so-called single opposition candidate. There are so many of them now that you will lack the fingers to count them.”
“Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.”
“When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.”
“Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.”
“For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn.”
“How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details of his technique! To just let him lead one by the hand.”

Source : Arturo Torres-Rioseco, Félix Pita Rodríguez, Lino Novás Calvo, Horacio Quiroga, Francisco Ayala (1967). “Short stories of Latin America”

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