"Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first."

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Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

Ali Liebegott

#Book Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population. Large scale immigration from the Orient would change the fundamental composition of the Canadian population.”
“More women are graduating from college now than men.”
“The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.”
“We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.”
“If I had to choose a song to listen to before I died, it would be Simone singing ComeÃ§ar de novo.”
“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.”

Source : Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.106, Rowman & Littlefield
“â€ŽWhat a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.”
“Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.”

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