"My profession brought me in contact with various minds. Earnest, serious discussion on the condition of woman enlivened my business room; failures of banks, no dividends from railroads, defalcations of all kinds, public and private, widows and orphans and unmarried women beggared by the dishonesty, or the mismanagement of men, were fruitful sources of conversation; confidence in man as a protector was evidently losing ground, and women were beginning to see that they must protect themselves."

-- Harriot Kezia Hunt

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“Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and the creation of grooves which determined the channels of thought of readers and later writers.”

Source : Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.50, University of Toronto Press
“If you do right, everything will come out right.”
“We like to juxtapose our music with a more dour aesthetic.”
“Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.”

Source : Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.6482, Library of Alexandria
“Moments of pure happiness come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.”
“In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.”

Source : "In the Writing #4: Why Justified ‘s Dialogue is Best-in-Television" by Jesse Damiani, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.
“The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate for the purposes of storytelling.”
“I really like transgressive characters that have an alternate world view. I've actually written a fair number of kids movies, and I'll insert these kid-friendly articulate sociopaths who are usually yelling at the children for their own benefit.”

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