"When custom has made familiar the charms that are most attractive, when youthful freshness has died away, and with the brightness of domestic life more and more shadows have mingled, then ... and not till then, can the wife say of the husband, "He is worthy of love;" then, first, the husband say of the wife, "She blooms in imperishable beauty."

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Source : Timothy Shay Arthur (1888). “The Wedding Guest: a Friend of the Bride and Bridegroom”

Timothy Shay Arthur

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“Flapping my arms I began to cluck, look at me, I'm the disco duck.”
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”

Source : Frederick Douglass (2013). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”, p.54, Simon and Schuster
“I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.”

Source : "A Dialogue With Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December, 10 1990.
“Let them no more say, God must do all, we can do nothing, and so encourage themselves to live in a careless neglect of God, and of their own souls, and salvation. Most certainly, altho' we cannot say, That if men improve their natural abilities as they ought to do, that grace will infallibly follow, yet there will not one sinner in all the reprobate world, stand forth at the day of judgment, and say, Lord, thou knowest I did all that possibly I could do, for the obtaining grace, and for all that, thou didst withhold it from me.”
“Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.”
“Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.”

Source : "Break Time Is Over : Anita Baker's last album was in 1990. Then everyone thought she was lost to motherhood. Guess everybody forgot to ask the important person: Baker". Interview with Dennis Hunt, articles.latimes.com. September 18, 1994.
“Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.”
“Documentary: Thatâ€™s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clearâ€¦ The term should be documentary styleâ€¦ You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.”

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