"I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book."

-- Mary MacLane

#Girl Quotes #Reading Quotes #Book Quotes

“There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.”

Source : Benvenuto Cellini (1956). “The Autobiography”
“In the afternoon, they stopped to eat on a rocky outcrop. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she was chewing, and she learned that it was the loveliest thing to be kissed for no reason, even while chewing food. It brightened the woods, and the never sky, and everything.”
“In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.”
“I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.”

Source : "Countdown" with Keith Oldermann, www.nbcnews.com. January 7, 2005.
“The other side of every fear is a freedom.”
“The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.”

Source : Katy Lederer (2008). “The Heaven-sent Leaf: Poems”, Boa Editions
“The purpose of economic theory is to make those who are comfortable FEEL comfortable.”
“Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.”

Source : Kent Nerburn (2010). “Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life”, p.18, New World Library

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