"The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought."

-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#Atheism Quotes #Gone Quotes #Movement Quotes

“I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.”
“When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle class. And if your name is on your shirt, you're poor.”
“I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.”
“Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.”
“The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.”
“I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.”

Source : 1688 Letter to Mr Poley, 12 Jan.
“Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.”

Source : Jan Karon (2011). “Jan Karons Mitford Years: The First Five Novels”, p.224, Penguin
“It's only when it's smoothed out by history and we try to make sense of it - this incredibly complicated period when everyone's doing something different every day - that we look for those stylistic similarities and we say, "Well, that's what that was about," and sort of forget all the other nuance. I definitely feel that that's true for this time in my community of artists, and I'm sure that it was true at other times too.”

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