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“True love is deemed to be the most tender of our emotions, as even the blind and deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still.”
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“I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.”
Source : Countee Cullen, Gerald Lyn Early (1991). “My soul's high song: the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance”, Doubleday Books
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“This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.”
Source : Alex Flinn (2014). “Three Beastly Kendra Chronicles: Beastly, Lindy's Diary, Bewitching”, p.43, Harper Collins
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“The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.”
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“Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith and not so easy to practise it.”
Source : Fred Reinfeld (1961). “Great Short Games of the Chess Masters”, p.201, Courier Corporation
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“Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.”
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“When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.”
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“Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.”
