"Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family."

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Source : Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (1977). “The hearthstone of my heart”, Doubleday Books

Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

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“I try to, at least once or twice a week, have someone over and model, usually a dancer friend or a poet or someone to come over and just stay still for me. Depending on how exhibitionist they are, it will determine the finished work. And I say, "You're the muse; you come up with it. I'll draw you however you want."”
“History is written by the winners.”
“Lack of love from parents often motivates their children to go searching for love in other relationships. This search is often misguided and leads to further disappointment.”
“A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.”
“the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.”

Source : Patricia J. Williams (2016). “Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race”, p.4, Macmillan
“But I'm lost when it comes to you.”
“There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly ***** centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts for the future historian, and what do they say? They say 'Auschwitz' and 'Dresden' and 'Hiroshima' and 'Vietnam' and 'Napalm.' For many years we all woke up to the daily body count on the radio. And if there were a way to kill people with the B Minor Mass, the Pentagon-Madison Avenue axis would have found it.”

Source : Source: www.all-creatures.org
“At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to have an experience of separation from others.”

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