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“I know why the best blues artist comes from Mississippi,” Hooker told an interviewer from Melody Maker in 1964. “Because it’s the worst state. You have the blues all right if you’re down in Mississippi.”

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Book:Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music

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“In a quick moment, Cole was in front of her. Simply there. He leaned in, their breath mingling. His warm lips touched hers lightly, and he kissed her. His scent was that of the pine forest, the air and the land around them, and it dazzled her. His strength, his determination to treat her exactly the way she wanted to be treated, ever-changing as it was—dazzled her more.”

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Book:A Real Man: The First Miracle

Source: A Real Man: The First Miracle

“In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once, by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel.”

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Book:Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

Source: Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

“The Gorilla Foundation, like a tree or cloud or other thing from nature, seems to mostly present itself only to an ideal, abstract, fully internalized audience—one that does not question sincerity or intent, that does not require justification or meaning, that would rather The Gorilla Foundation not pause (to defend itself, to allow others time to comprehend it) but to continue always with what it’s already doing. In this manner The Gorilla Foundation exists more in actualization of itself than in opposition to something else, which implies, to some degree, that it doesn’t earnestly believe it—or anything—“needs” to exist or is “right” or “wrong,” rather that its “mission” is a temporary concept, created by itself to directionalize itself, that without which [The Gorilla Foundation] wouldn’t exist.”

Koko The Gorilla Foundation

Author:Tao Lin

“Koko understands that she’s special because of all the attention she's had from professors, and caregivers, and the media.”

Penny Koko Francine Patterson Koko The Gorilla

Author:Francine Patterson

“I realized that when she tears a page out of a magazine or a book, it’s not trash. It’s meaningful. She wants us to see it. Plus, she also uses some cards we gave her with objects printed on them when she has something to say. I remember one Valentine's Day, she had some cards out waiting for me that stated pretty clearly “Where are the goodies?”

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Author:Francine Patterson

“And Koko's behavior has been abnormal since we moved in. He's always talking to himself and staring into space.' 'He's talking to ghosts,' Roger said with a straight face.”

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Book:The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts

Source: The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts

“What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, and not Jack, that's all.”

Freddy

Book:Cotillion

Source: Cotillion

“Well, fuck you. And the eagles you rode in on.”

Freddy

Book:Heir to the Underworld

Source: Heir to the Underworld

“...some small part of her had reacted to the passion inside him. Despite his role as a titled gentleman, there seemed to be a facet inside him that society could not tame, something stimulating yet dangerous, like standing at the edge of a cliff and feeling the mysterious, subtle pull to jump.”

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Book:Through the Smoke

Source: Through the Smoke

“When a bill was put before the state legislature in Jefferson City that would have prohibited anyone who owned a saloon from holding elective office and reporters asked what he thought of it, Alderman Jim said probably the bill was intended as a way of improving the reputation of saloonkeepers.”

Truman

Book:Truman

Source: Truman

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