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Kathryn Stockett

"Oh, it was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with. If I'd had a sister or a brother closer in age, I guessed that's what it would be like. But it wasn't just smoking or skirting around Mother. It was having someone look at you after your mother has nearly fretted herself to death because you are freakishly tall and frizzy and odd. Someone whose eyes simply said, without words, You are fine with me."

Source : Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.75, Penguin

Kathryn Stockett

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“America was based on a big promise--a great big one: the Declaration of Independence. When you have to live with that in the house, that's quite a problem--particularly when you've got to make money and get ahead, open world markets, do all the things you have to, raise your children, and so forth. America is stuck with its self-definition put on paper in 1776, and that was just like putting a burr under the metaphysical saddle of America--you see, that saddle's going to jump now and then and it pricks.”
“Sex is a game, a weapon, a toy, a joy, a trance, an enlightenment, a loss, a hope.”
“I prefer to cry alone, Pride? No. I just want to avoid trial of people who don't know the reason of my tears.”
“Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.”

Source : Song: Ghetto Prisioners, Album: I Am..., 1999
“What are friends for? They are the ultimate reflection of yourself. Always surround yourself with people who inspire you and return the favor by giving them the best of you.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jenny McCarthy from Apr 06, 2012
“If I were to continue on with 'The Host,' which is a possibility, there are characters and stories that could continue... If I went ahead with that, it would be two more... Next would be 'The Soul,' and then 'The Seeker.”
“What I think is important for a young person is to figure out how to be useful and not be so concentrated on themselves, but to see what they can do to make the overall collaboration with all the other people involved in a movie work better.”
“The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.”

Source : Howard Staunton (1847). “The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece”, p.5

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