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Therefore our legends always come around to seeming legendary,
A path decorated with our comings and goings. Or so I've been ...
John Ashbery
legends | stories and storytelling
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With boys you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane. It's all there. The fruit flies hovering over their w ...
Erma Bombeck
mothers and sons
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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled ski ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
character
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Every woman who visited the Fair made it the center of her orbit. Here was a structure designed by a woman, decorated by women, ma ...
Kate Field
World's Columbian Exposition | achievement
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... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the words of ...
Mary McCarthy
Christianity | Christians | arts
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Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in ...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
treason and treachery
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If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fis ...
Jane Grey Swisshelm
social/political activism: 19th century | journalism | journalists | risk and risk-taking
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He crafted his writing and loved listening to those tiny explosions when the active brutality of verbs in revolution raced into sw ...
Alexander Theroux
writers and writing
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They can kill us, but they can't eat us. That's against the law!
Gil Doud
killing | war | cannibalism
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That's what it means to be a veteran--to be scared all the time.
Gil Doud
fear | battles | war
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