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“The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians.”
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“Once a book is published, it no longer belongs to me. My creative task is done. The work now belongs to the creative mind of my readers. I had my turn to make of it what I would, now it is their turn.”
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“... the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.”
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“All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that ...”
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“She sings like she's got a secret, and if you listen long enough, she'll tell it to you — and only you.”
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“ Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.”
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“As often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I have felt as though I were entering a cathedral with prayer in my heart.”
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“Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development — begun now and ending never. And a life made true cannot confine itself — it must reach out and twine around every pulsing interest within reach of its uplifting tendrils.”