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“The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.”
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“Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.”
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“After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.”
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“... it starts as an inflection of the voice, a question asked in a certain tone and not answered with 'no'; a prolonged little silence, a twinkle in the eye, a long-drawen 'w-e-e-ell — I don't know.' These are the fine roots of the tree whose poisonous fruits are gossip and slander.”
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“Giving your body a chance to exult, however you choose to do it, is the essence of sport.”
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“We forgive, if we are wise, not for the other person, but for ourselves. We forgive, not to erase a wrong, but to relieve the residue of the wrong that is alive within us. We forgive because it is less painful than holding on to resentment. We forgive because without it we condemn ourselves to repeating endlessly the very trauma or situation that hurt us so. We forgive because ultimately it is the smartest action to take on our own behalf. We forgive because it restores to us a sense of inner balance.”
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“I suppose it is a law of nature that the horizon should lower as we climb down the hill of life ... ”
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“He could fling words across the room like knives.”