"THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died."

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Source : John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.23, Anza Publishing

John Sergeant Wise

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“I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Whether people like your work or not, but it's also based on a lot of other things - geography, who you happen to connect with and where they sit in that ladder - and all of that felt really isolating and disheartening to me when I figured it out.”
“I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.”
“It's easy at times to win golf tournaments and shoot 59, and sometimes it's hard to post an 85.”
“When I was an adolescent, I was obsessed with having many commercial things, cars, clothes, stupid things. Now that I have all that, I understand that the superfluous things can turn to you into a very stupid idiot-type. In East Germany there were very few things, but there was also a feeling of solidarity that no longer exists. Now we are up to the neck in consumption, the ego, the individualism. Now before friendship, it is merchandise.”
“But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.”
“Robert Burns in his splendid indifference to rank, and Whitman in his glorification of common things, have points of kinship with him. But to such radiant white heart of child-likeness, it would be impossible to find a perfect counterpart.”
“Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only he can keep them from praying.”

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