"lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss."

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Source : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.243, The Floating Press

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

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“The church should be a disciplined charging army. Christians, like slaves and solders ask no questions. We are fighting a holy war.”
“Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.”
“I think any time you get beaten down and rise back up again, you become stronger.”
“I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the machinery of civilized life? The world seems to me to do much of its toil for that which is not in any sense bread. Again, does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?”

Source : William Allingham (1967). “William Allingham's diary”, Centaur Press
“We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred time, you go back to her and I go back to black...”
“Listen to everyone, read everything; believe absolutely nothing unless you can prove it in your own right!”
“To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain with the author as a guide-- a guide one might not always agree with or trust, but who can at least be counted on to take one somewhere.”
“I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of theater going on, so for that area, it was a little bit like playing Little League baseball. There were dance classes, theater classes, and I just loved it.”

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