"It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 - 20th of my Composition is Pride. I must either live a Slave, a Servant; to have no Will of my own, no Sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such; --or DIE --perplexing alternative!"

-- Thomas Chatterton

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“My TWA enabled me to be done at the hair section much earlier than the other girls. I washed my hair and put some conditioner at home before heading to the Armory, where the show took place. The hairstylist basically only had to put some spray so that my TWA would be looking its best. It took the hairstylist literally 10 seconds.”
“I don't know that I'm post-anything. I'd like to think maybe I'm post-bullshit.”
“Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers.”

Source : Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”
“The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.”

Source : Tess Gerritsen (2008). “The Keepsake: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel”, p.10, Ballantine Books
“Making knots. Making knots. No word. Making knots. Tick-tock. This is a clock. Do not think of Gale. Do not think of Peeta. Making knots.”
“During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was, saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.”
“I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white'.”

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