"My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents!"

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Source : "Stacy Schiff, author of 'Cleopatra: A Life,' on the perfect biography subject". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com.

Stacy Schiff

#Girl Quotes #Book Quotes #Massachusetts Quotes

“I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.”
“The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart...”
“My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.”

Source : "The Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson (November 7, 1943 speech to Gauleiters in Munich), 1997.
“There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.”
“Second thoughts, they say, are best.”
“My parents created their own war.”
“The great and rare mystics of the past . . . were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In other words, they most definitely are not figures of the past. They are figures of the future.”

Source : Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.261, Shambhala Publications
“We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for.”

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