"Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm."

-- Toussaint Louverture

#Character Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Needs Quotes

“As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business.”
“Think BIG. There are unseen forces ready to support your dreams.”
“Never point at anything beige and call it cool.”

Source : "Lea's Book of Rules for the World". Book by Lea DeLaria, 2000.
“The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it.”
“It wasn't in the states best interest to let the jury know, they said it would raise doubt that John Gacy acted alone. The defence attorneys didn't bring it out because it didn't have..it didn't go along with their insanity defence, showing others were involved.”
“I couldn't figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time.”
“it is a mistake to talk of the twilight of age, or the blurred sight of old people. The long day grows clearer at its close, and the petty fogs of prejudice which rose between us and our fellows in youth melt away as the sun goes down. At last we see God's creatures as they are.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.129, Vanderbilt University Press
“The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.”

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