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Barbara Gordon
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“I've always hated Sundays, always had to fight the gray gloom that comes over me on Sunday afternoons. ... when I die it will be on a Sunday afternoon around four o'clock.”
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“Two things always look better in the movies, Melinda. Mental institutions and war.”
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“All human beings hold the tools of their own destruction.”
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“Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure that mine doesn't end with a whine.”
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“What seems like courage is really persistence — the ability to put part of yourself on hold — patience.”
Barbara Gordon, U.S. writer
(1935)