"I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines."

-- Alice Sebold

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“He (Jackie Robinson) knew he had to do well. He knew that the future of blacks in baseball depended on it. The pressure was enormous, overwhelming, and unbearable at times. I don't know how he held up. I know I never could have.”
“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
“Passion is born deaf and dumb.”
“I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.”
“I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find.”
“Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury”
“And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist.”
“For one look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ.”

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