"Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world â€” Los Angeles in the '50s â€” they made perfect sense."

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Source : Wanda Coleman (2005). “The Riot Inside Me: More Trials & Tremors”, p.7, David R. Godine Publisher

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“Photography is a strange phenomenon... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul.”

Source : Inge Morath, Sabine Folie, Gerald Matt (1999). “Inge Morath, life as a photographer”, Gina Kehayoff Pub
“People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or disbelieved is that there is an entity answering a certain description. This, which can be believed or disbelieved is quite different from the actual entity (if any) which does answer the description. Thus the matter of belief is, in all cases, different in kind from the matter of sensation or presentation, and error is in no way analogous to hallucination. A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.”
“Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.”

Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.51, Random House
“We're living in a world where everything moves very quickly. We've become a very visual society, so I think it's a very natural thing that people are captivated with the illustrations in a story.”
“White dew- one drop on each thorn”
“We are going to be able to defeat ISIS on the ground there, as well as in this world, because of the Muslim Americans in our country and throughout the world who understand that this brutal and barbaric group is perverting the name of a great world religion.”
“I ain't the captain of the yacht, but I'm on the boat; I ain't acting what I'm not, knowing that I don't. You ***** acting like you will, but I know you won't. Man, I read between the lines of the eyes of your brows, Your handshake ain't matchin your smile...”
“Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.”

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