"For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside."

-- Leslie Marmon Silko

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“I will say that when I first came out to the States to work on 'Jericho,' that was the only time that I've ever been frightened about a job, because in America they tell stories over such a long time, and I was petrified that I'd get bored.”

Source : "Lennie James on Acting in England and the U.S". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. August 27, 2012.
“I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.”
“Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these people are trying to hire not Calvin Coolidge, but a former President of the United States. I can't make that kind of use of the office.... I can't do anything that might take away from the Presidency any of its dignity, or any of the faith people have in it.”
“What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?”

Source : Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”
“Even at the person-to-person level, to be universally liked is to be relatively ignored. To be disliked by some is to be loved all the more by others. And, specifically, a womanâ€™s overall sex appeal is enhanced when some men find her ugly.”

Source : Christian Rudder (2014). “Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves”, p.49, Crown
“The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity.”
“Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.”
“Of course we fight. What sisters don't battle?”

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