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Richard Wright quote: "Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in..."
Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. Richard Wright
Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS William Lloyd Garrison
To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito. Charles Baudelaire
Lewis Carroll quote: "If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter..."
If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take. Lewis Carroll
There are episodes in most men's lives in which their highest qualities can only cast a deterring shadow over the objects that fill their inward version. George Eliot
When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters... Martin Luther King jr.
As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I am on about. Certainly I wish I had never written Voss, which is going to be everybody's albatross. Patrick White
I have to live, perhaps, till seventy years. As far as I know, I have good health. Half a century of existence may lie before me. How am I to occupy it? What am I to do to fill the interval of time which spreads between me and the grave? Charlotte Bronte
A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky. Alexander Dumas
Russell Brand quote: "Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of..."
Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory. Russell Brand
In our household, which was essentially under an evil spell, my father 'Chaplin' was all the magic. A great man draws magic into himself, like reverse lightning. There's nothing to spare for anyone else. Joyce Carol Oates
There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone John Stuart Mill
And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home. Wendell Berry
E. M. Forster quote: "The hedge was a half-painted picture which would be finished..."
The hedge was a half-painted picture which would be finished in a few days. E. M. Forster
William Shakespeare quote: "Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal."
Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal. William Shakespeare

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