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But expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
“There are two kinds of guilt. The kind that's a burden and the kind that gives you purpose. Let your guilt be your fuel. Let it remind you of who you want to be. Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It's damaged but it's there. Don't let them take it from you.”
― An Ember in the Ashes
― An Ember in the Ashes
“Gallatin had warned Jefferson that " government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals as if he could do it better than themselves.”
― James Madison: A Life Reconsidered
― James Madison: A Life Reconsidered
“Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive.”
― The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
― The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
“There are an estimated forty square miles of vacant land in Detroit, enough to fit San Francisco inside just what’s been abandoned.”
― A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City
― A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City
“She was a little removed,” Jack said as an adult. In private, he complained that Rose never told him that she loved him. Jack’s friend Charles Spalding, who saw the family up close, described Rose as “so cold, so distant from the whole thing . . . I doubt if she ever rumpled the kid’s hair in his whole life. . . . It just didn’t exist: the business of letting your son know you’re close, that she’s there. She wasn’t.” Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy told the journalist Theodore White that “history made him [Jack] what he was . . . this lonely sick boy. His mother really didn’t love him. . . . She likes to go around talking about being the daughter of the Mayor of Boston, or how she was an ambassador’s wife. . . . She didn’t love him. . . . History made him what he was.”
― An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
― An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
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