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“Resistance is the secret of joy!”

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Alice Walker is a renowned American author born on February 9, 1944. Her works are known for their profound social criticism and feminist ideas, with notable titles including 'The Color Purple' and 'Beloved'. more

“She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to be borne patiently for a while, that she happened to be imprisoned among people who were dull. She had caught a glimpse of another world and she knew it existed somewhere, the world that had created trains, bridges, telegraph wires and signal lights winking in the night. She had to wait she thought, and grow up to that world. - Dagny Taggart”

People World Children Light Night Grows Felt Waiting Growing Up Happened Adults Train Caught Accidents Bridges Indifference Boards Dull Signals Glimpse Wire Another World Telegraph Winking Taggart

Author:Ayn Rand

“She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart”

People Feels Earth Past Felt Rivers Towns Distance Planes Detachment Slipping Prairie Untouchables Taggart

Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.”

Thinking Looks Spiritual Concern Look At Me

Book:The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

“If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.”

Ifs Men Hate Compassion Leaving Worthy Gentleness Good Will Sorrowful

Book:Les Miserables Volume One

Source: Les Miserables Volume One

“But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.”

Weapons Red Garden Green Gardening Cabbage Jade Inspirational Gardening Burgundy Red And Green

Book:So Big

Source: So Big

“It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.”

Thinking Language Stuff Common Speech Aspect

Author:Mark Doty

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”

Beautiful Choices Reading Pleasure Comfort Pure Surround Stillness Consolation Stimulants

Book:The Brooklyn Follies

Source: The Brooklyn Follies

“The other day I was playing Scrabble. I saw that I could close the space in D-E- -Y. I had an N and an F. Which do you think I chose? What was the word I made?”

Thinking Made Space Saws Scrabble

Book:The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

“To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body.”

Feels Body Language Loses

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a little. And that'll be perfectly all right, because it's not every day you realize you're a living planet dweller on a little island in the universe.”

May Littles Might Happens Universe Realizing Planets Garden Islands Scream Dwellers Martians

Book:The Solitaire Mystery

Source: The Solitaire Mystery

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