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“London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognise them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan
“Don't lose your temper; you have only got one.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan
“The art of living. The only really Fine Art we have produced in modern times.”
― An Ideal Husband
― An Ideal Husband
“A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications.”
― Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
― Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
“During the crisis, black people had often made more money in a month than they had seen in their whole lives. Black men did not leave their wives, driven away by an inability to provide for their families. They rode in public transport on a first-come/first-seated basis. And more times than not were called Mister/Missus at their jobs or by sales clerks.
Two months after V-Day war plants began to shut down, to cut back, to lay off employees. Some workers were offered tickets back to their Southern homes. Back to the mules they had left tied to the tree on ole Mistah Doo hickup farm. No good. Their expanded understanding could never again be accordioned into these narrow confines. They were free or at least nearer to freedom than ever before and they would not go back.”
― Gather Together in My Name
Two months after V-Day war plants began to shut down, to cut back, to lay off employees. Some workers were offered tickets back to their Southern homes. Back to the mules they had left tied to the tree on ole Mistah Doo hickup farm. No good. Their expanded understanding could never again be accordioned into these narrow confines. They were free or at least nearer to freedom than ever before and they would not go back.”
― Gather Together in My Name
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