"Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun."

-- Meshell Ndegeocello

“I've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.”
“I equate peonies with love because they're the first blooms of summer.”

Source : FaceBook post by Isaac Mizrahi from May 30, 2012
“I was a professional chess player in Romania, but only a small-time master. When I came to France, I continued playing chess for many years: I played tournaments in numerous countries with mixed results. I wrote and published a book - La DÃ©fense Alekhine and translated two others from Russian. I taught chess in schools; I earned more money through chess than through literature.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Never stop listening to your audience.”
“Ive always enjoyed seeing how things are made.”
“The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.”
“How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we love more than our own breath, and still ache to think of the one who caused us pain all those years ago? It's the betrayal of this second heart of ours, its flesh tied off like a fingertip twined tightly round with a single hair, blue-tinged from lack of blood. The shameful squeeze of it.”
“I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving”

Source : Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.84, Nellie Bly

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