"It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable."

-- Betty Smith

#School Quotes #Other Worlds Quotes #Unattainable Quotes

“There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, which is free.”

Source : Rose Tremain (1995). “Sacred Country”, p.232, Simon and Schuster
“Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.”
“The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.”
“The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.”
“There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.”
“Do not collaborate with someone you would not go camping with.”
“Why, you love him! Your fear, your terror, all of that is just love and love of the most exquisite kind, the kind which people do not admit even to themselves.”

Source : Gaston Leroux (2016). “GOTHIC CRIME MYSTERIES – Premium Collection: The Phantom of the Opera, The Mystery of the Yellow Room, The Secret of the Night, The Man with the Black Feather & Balaoo: Thriller Classics”, p.814, e-artnow
“Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.”

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