"People always loved best what they identified most with."

-- Arundhati Roy

“The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.”
“He kissed her as though he were starved for her. Like he'd been held away from her and had finally broken free. It was the kind of kiss that lived only in her fantasies. No one had ever made her feel so..consumed.”
“My campaign is based upon the proposition that the answers to the problems which currently plague our cities, our towns, and our homes, are not to be found in the decisions in Washington. They are instead to be found in the hearts, minds and resources of our own people here at home.”

Source : Speech given to citizens in Cincinnati Ohio, Circa 1970.
“I used to practice Wicca.”
“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.”
“Americaâ€™s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,' and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history-was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle.”
“There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.”
“One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.”

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