"Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality."

-- James A. Garfield

#Reality Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Tangible Quotes

“What did you do to Amma?" "I was late to school." He studied my face. I studied his. "Number 2?" I nodded. "Sharp?" "Started out sharp and then she sharpened it.”
“People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took ***** to build muscles and got breast implants and nose jobs so they'd resemble their favorite movie stars. They changed names and majors and jobs and husbands and wives. They changed religions and political parties. They moved across the country or the world -- even changed nationalities. Why was gender the one sacred thing we werenâ€™t supposed to change? Who made that rule?”

Source : Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Parrotfish”, p.91, Simon and Schuster
“I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.”
“Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.”

Source : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2009). “The Palace of Illusions: A Novel”, p.63, Anchor
“That is why we have the polio vaccine. People are blazing their own trial. That is what seems to be important. I don't care to follow and to do what the mass is doing. That is not doing anything, to be doing what everyone else is doing. Everybody is unique. The funny thing about people now is that people don't really understand or really appreciate how unique each individual on earth is.”
“Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs”
“It was so big, that view. Iâ€™ll never remember it properly. How can anyone remember something that big? I donâ€™t think peopleâ€™s brains are designed for memories like that. Theyâ€™re designed for things like phone numbers, or the color of someoneâ€™s hair. Not hugeness.”
“I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.”

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