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“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from
Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better."
-said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come in and ask for a buttered biscuit or something and my mother, impatiently, would tell them no. But I would cry out and make a fuss until I got what I wanted. I remember well how my mother asked me why I couldn't be a nice boy like Wilfred; but I would think to myself that Wilfred, for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“I think that an objective reader may see how in the society to which I was exposed as a black youth here in America, for me to wind up in a prison was really just about inevitable. It happens to so many thousands of black youth.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“It’s a crime, the lie that has been told to generations of black men and white men both. Little innocent black children, born of parents who believed that their race had no history. Little black children seeing, before they could talk, that their parents considered themselves inferior. Innocent black children growing up, living out their lives, dying of old age—and all of their lives ashamed of being black. But the truth is pouring out of the bag now.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“One morning, though, I came in and found signs that my room had been entered.
I knew it had been detectives. I'd heard too many times how if they couldn't find any evidence, they would plant some, where you would never find it, then they'd come back in and "find" it.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“Wherever you come near the human race there’s layers and layers of nonsense.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“Now there are some things we all know, but we don't take'm out and look at'm very often. We all know that something is eternal. And it ain't houses and it ain't names, and it ain't earth, and it ain't even the stars… everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you'd be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There's something way down deep that's eternal about every human being.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“Everybody has a right to their own troubles.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us.
Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on”
― Homer, The Iliad

“My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius”
― Homer, The Iliad

“But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“Oh, how she did love that queer, common boy!”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“He had made himself believe that he was going to get well, which was really more than half the battle.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“How does tha' like thysel'?”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“She was a sweet, pretty thing and he'd have walked the world over to get her a blade o' grass she wanted.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“She had begun to wonder why she had never seemed to belong to anyone”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“That afternoon the whole world seemed to devote itself to being perfect and radiantly beautiful and kind to one boy.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“Dickon says anything will understand if you're friends with it for sure, but you have to be friends for sure.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden