When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift...
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Margery Allingham
When I came home, I was asked to put my pictures in a photo exhibit at the Cinematography College ... my pictures won first prize. I began to ask myself what I was doing, and why. A few months after the exhibit, I dropped out...
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Vladislav Tamarov
One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description)
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Jeannette Walls
You can’t just come out and say what you have to say. That’s what people do on airplanes, when a man plops down next to you in the aisle seat of your flight to New York, spills peanuts all over the place (back when the...
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Adair Lara
We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.
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Piper Kerman
More Quotes By George Meredith
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
Kissing don't last: cookery do !
Why mayn't they do what men do?' the Hero cried impetuously. 'I hate that contemptible narrow-mindedness. It's that that makes the ruin and horrors I see. Why mayn't they do what men do? I like the women who are brave enough not to be hypocrites....
Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
