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“It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.”

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Edna Ferber was an American novelist renowned for her rich imagination and profound social insight. Her works often feature female protagonists, exploring the status and roles of women in society. Her representative works include 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Anna Karenina'. more

“It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm just as much to blame for the break-up. 'Soma' is based on the idea that a love relationship is almost the same as opium: it slowly puts you to sleep, it soothes you, and gives you the illusion of sureness and security. Very deceivable.”

Giving Years Ideas Lasts Left Sleep Break Security Illusion Blame Girlfriend Last Year Love Relationship Opium Soma

Author:Billy Corgan

“Instead of taking the 'I'm cool, I hope you adore me' path (with my music), I chose the path of how to connect. I think that's the reason a lot of people feel a deeper connection with our band than other bands, and I also feel that's why people polarize on us. If you don't get it, it seems preposterous; if you do get it, it's really heavy - it has a weight to it.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Reason Seems Path Band Connections Weight Heavy Deeper Adore

Author:Billy Corgan

“It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.”

People Life Next Work Failure Overcoming Difficulty Adversity Angle Taxi Plugging In

Author:Andre Gide

“This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.”

World Negative Response Reactions

Author:Billy Corgan

“Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper.It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.”

People Years Reading Crazy Driven Treatment Yellow Altered Specialists

Book:Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist

Source: Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist

“A million million worlds that move in peace;A million mighty laws that never cease;And one small ant-heap, hidden by small weeds,Rich with eggs, slaves and store of millet-seeds.They sleep beneath the sodAnd trust in God.”

World Moving Law Sleep Millions Rich Slave Seeds Stores Cease Eggs Weed Trust In God Ants

Book:Charlotte Perkins Gilman's In this Our World and Uncollected Poems

Source: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's In this Our World and Uncollected Poems

“Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,"You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!”

Made Said Hot Wings Rage Burning Idiot Scorn Rage And Anger

Book:The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings

Source: The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings

“I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!”

Want Worms

Book:Charlotte Perkins Gilman's In this Our World and Uncollected Poems

Source: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's In this Our World and Uncollected Poems

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