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“In 1930 the price of cotton dropped. And so, in the spring of 1931, Papa set out looking for work, going as far north as Memphis and as far south as the Delta country. He had gone west too, into Louisiana. It was there he found work laying track for the railroad. He worked the remainder of the year away from us, not returning until the deep winter when the ground was cold and barren. The following spring after the planting was finished, he did the same. Now it was 1933, and Papa was again in Louisiana laying track. I”
― Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
― Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
“You don’t need schooling to be a philosopher. Just an active mind and experience with life.”
― Forward the Foundation
― Forward the Foundation
“In my journal I logged this comment: "On the day that I was officially a grown woman, I felt anything but feminine rather, befouled from the sweat of hard physical labor and the stinking mud. I wanted nothing so much as to sleep for a week.”
― Julie
― Julie
“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
― The Three Witches and the Master
― The Three Witches and the Master
“Only the shallow man loses responsiveness to the woes of others’ lives, as he sinks into narrow suffering of his own.”
― Autobiography of a Yogi
― Autobiography of a Yogi
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