"I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected."

-- Bayard Taylor

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“The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.”
“Women in drudgery knew They must be one of four: Whores, artists, saints, and wives. There are composite lives that women always live”
“We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.”
“I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.”
“Anything that's really grounded in humanity and is real, but just happens to be faux pas, or just really shouldn't be funny, I like it.”
“I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.”
“Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an effort to understand why he must do this. For if his frustration and despair are allowed to continue piling up, millions of Negroes will seek solace and security in black-nationalist ideologies. And this, inevitably, would lead to a frightening racial nightmare.”
“Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.”

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