“You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different.”
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“The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.”
― Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
― Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
“had two reasons. Ned was by himself in this world, except for me, and I didn’t want no man and no children spiting him just because he was an orphan. The other reason I never looked at a man, I was barren. An old woman on the place had told me that. I went to her one day and told her how my body act and didn’t act. After we had sat down and talked a while, she said one word: “Barren.” I went to a doctor and he told me the same thing: “You barren, all right.”
― The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
― The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
“Succeeding in life is about having that onetime urgency to go for it.”
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“What one must fear, moreover, is not so much the sight of the immorality of the great as that of immorality leading to greatness.”
― Democracy in America
― Democracy in America
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