"orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them."

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Source : Gertrude Atherton (2012). “Black Oxen”, p.308, Broadview Press

Gertrude Atherton

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“Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.”
“If you want to direct, you've got to work.”
“What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?”
“Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.”
“They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.”
“Once I graduated from NYU, I started making custom vintage tees for my friends and it just took off from there.”

Source : "Arizona 20 Years: Charlotte Ronson". Interview with Miguel Enamorado, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2012.
“Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open wound. Obsession ain't solution, however, because reading even at its most intense and verisimilitudinous is vicarious, and once you close the book you're off the hook.”

Source : Marita Golden, Susan Shreve (2011). “Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write About Race”, p.2, Anchor
“In love, 100 pennies do not equal a dollar.”

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