"If I must die, then I will die boldly, as I have lived."

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Carolyn Meyer

“Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street. When you read contemporary accounts of booms or panics, the one thing that strikes you most forcibly is how little either stock speculation or stock speculators today differ from yesterday. The game does not change and neither does human nature.”
“A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.”
“Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.”
“Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.”
“We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.”

Source : Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.44, Cambridge University Press
“It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.”
“The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?”
“Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.”

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