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“And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night.”
Source : Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1879). “Friar Anselmo: And Other Poems”
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“We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.”
Source : Robert Edmond Jones (2004). “The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue”, p.1, Routledge
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“You can never achieve anything in a house unless you have things that have been passed down and you find a place for them for yourself.”
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“Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.”
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“Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region.”
Source : Arthur Kemp (2009). “The Lie of Apartheid and other true stories from Southern Africa”, p.2, Lulu.com
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“Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's”
Source : Marian Keyes (2009). “Last Chance Saloon”, p.11, Harper Collins
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“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.”
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“My mom makes the best Cajun stuff. I'm a big gumbo guy. I've lost a lot of my Louisiana accent, so now when I say 'gumbo,' I feel like someone who's never said the word before.”