"Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I speak about the series' "radiant simplicity.""

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Source : "Ask the Author Live: Judith Thurman on Laura Ingalls Wilder". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2009.

Judith Thurman

#People Quotes #Simplicity Quotes #Political Quotes

“The people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.”

Source : "‘Hamilton’ Vs. Trump: Free-speech Duels Go on From Broadway to L.A.: Guest Commentary" by Ed Rampell, www.dailynews.com. November 23, 2016.
“There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.”
“It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.”
“my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.”

Source : William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated
“Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.”
“It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.”
“The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.”
“Following your heart's desire will lead you in the direction your spirit wants to go.”

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