"Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work."

-- James Joyce

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“I think that there is a changing wind. There are black conservatives out there, and their voices need to be heard.”
“The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to appeal to it on all occasions savors more of the policy of a parrot than of a statesman or a philosopher.”

Source : "The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain". Book by Roderick Floud, Volume 1. p. 363, 2014.
“The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.”
“I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.”
“You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you know, it was like they blew up like. You know, they wouldn't fit into any of my dresses. I had to quit taking those birth control pills... This was like - I mean they were like, I thought they should be photographed really... So they were, for immortality. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)”
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside”
“We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.”
“Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine."”

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