"there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used."

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Source : Gene Stratton-Porter (2009). “The White Flag”, p.460, Wildside Press LLC

Gene Stratton-Porter

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“I belong to my beloved, and my beloved is mine.”

Source : Jamie McGuire (2012). “Beautiful Disaster Signed Limited Edition: A Novel”, p.246, Simon and Schuster
“I'm running on hate. When the energy from that ebbs I'll be worthless.”
“The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.”
“If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.”
“I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.”
“I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.”
“Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience”
“It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.”

Source : Anna Katharine Green (2003). “That Affair Next Door and Lost Man’s Lane”, p.18, Duke University Press

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