"Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us."

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Source : Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

Dorianne Laux

“I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.”
“Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.”

Source : Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”
“True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.”
“The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.”
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

Source : Wuthering Heights ch. 9 (1847)
“In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.”
“The story of my grandmother is that of a French woman from the provinces who through her perseverance and thirst for knowledge worked her way up to become the head of a school. She belonged to a generation that didn't travel much. But she believed in Europe and she wanted Europe. And she read a lot - she knew mythology, literature and the classics very well. She passed that on to me, along with the conviction that you can earn your own position in society.”
“The Germans tend to like to blame the Nazi experience on one man who can be scapegoated. If you pile all the blame onto him, you exonerate the German masses from any responsibility.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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