"Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was a cauldron of ethnic rivalries, dominated by competing Irish and Italian constituencies."

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Source : Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.67, Penguin

Andrea Mitchell

#Italian Quotes #Cities Quotes #Philadelphia Quotes

“The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.”
“I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.”
“When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.”
“The words we speak to each other should leave stretch marks, not bruises. Love is always picky about what it says.”
“In order to choose the right path, we do not have to figure out the wrong one... we just need to follow the light.”
“One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.”
“You cannot sedate all the things you hate.”

Source : Song: Strange Same Dogma, Album: Portrait of an American Family
“None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom...' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.”

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