"A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys."

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Edith Wharton

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“My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.”
“The referee jumped in too late in my opinion. He's the champion and he's got to be given every chance, but a lot of people was wincing and cringing seeing the finish cos his head is bouncing all over the place.”
“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”
“But i think it would drive me more crazy to just go do a movie that I didn't believe in, you know?”
“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
“When I stop chasing all the wrong things in life all the good things start to fall into my lap.”
“I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.”
“Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them”

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