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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not
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“Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man.”
― The Crisis
― The Crisis
“A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.”
― The Secret Agent
― The Secret Agent
“Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”
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“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
― Fathers and Sons
― Fathers and Sons
“Scrapbooks allowed readers to take complete artistic control and create their own bricolage, combining text and image. In the United States they often took the form of highly idiosyncratic anthologies of poetry clipped from newspapers, back when every local newspaper published local poets.36 As a hobby, scrapbooking really took off during the Civil War, when Northerners and Southerners alike assembled their own histories of the conflict, reflecting their respective biases. Confederates naturally liked to clip reports of happy slaves proclaiming their loyalty to their masters.37 They didn’t realize that some former slaves were starting their own scrapbooks.”
― Readers' Liberation: The Literary Agenda
― Readers' Liberation: The Literary Agenda
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