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“So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.”

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Richard Pryor, born on December 1, 1940, was an iconic American comedian, writer, and director. His career began in the 1960s, and he became renowned for his unique humor style and insightful social commentary. Pryor's work touched on sensitive topics such as race, gender, class, and sexual orientation, and had a profound impact on comedy for generations to come. more

“Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an exposed finger that isn't stained. I sit for hours in a dark-room feeling as if I were a very elderly Faust at some dreadful incantation, and come out of it, blinding at the light, like a Bastille prisoner. And yet I am not successful!”

Ifs Writing Has Beens Feelings Light Hours Dark My Own Rooms Successful Teaching Havens Sticks Fingers Prisoner Exposed Clothings Plates Elderly Dark Room Faust Bastille

Author:Bret Harte

“But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.”

Doe Soul Lines My Own My Friends Repeats Encounters Native March Decline Celestial Latitude

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.”

Said Prayer Mankind Stakes Inward Monk Defence Illumination Hermits Thoughts And Prayers

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

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