"In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our literary fiction has all of these things. All that is missing is the believer."

-- Paul Elie

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“I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.”
“We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.... [The organized moneyed people] are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred.... I should like to have it said of my second administration that these forces met their master.”

Source : Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.568, Best Books on
“Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.”
“A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed. It doesnâ€™t move on its own. Sometimes it takes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.”
“I think there's a lot of power in listening to one person talking to you. And this should never be underestimated.One person sitting and talking to you and, you're pulled in, in ways that technology and art and all cannot.”
“Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths.”
“Im very into dark colors. I try to rock the dark against the ghost white skin as much as humanly possible.”
“There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.”

Source : Carol Shields (2008). “The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.82, Penguin

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