"I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together."

-- Stanley Crouch

#Intelligent Quotes #Odds Quotes #People Quotes

“What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.”
“Child care can almost bankrupt a family, even a two-parent household in which both parents are working. That keeps a parent from being at ease and it really stifles the social and economic growth of a family. Women are hit hard across the board, but particularly in homes where the mother is the head of the household and the only wage-earner. It hurts her, and it hurts her children.”
“The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.”

Source : Leo Strauss (1978). “Thoughts on Machiavelli”, p.30, University of Chicago Press
“Trust is a thing you know without words.”

Source : Juliet Marillier (2008). “Wildwood Dancing”, p.97, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“All that matters is how you see yourself.”
“At home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English.”
“We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.”
“Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument of the fountain pen to the note-book of the student without passing through the mind of either.”

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