Estelle Ramey Quotes
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.
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Tell me who I've got to be, to get some reciprocity.
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I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.
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It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voice could be that difference.
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But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view.
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I have swum against the stream all my life. It's not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.
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Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.
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If the world economy is divided into isolated economic blocs of this kind, it will be rather difficult to achieve the same interpretation and application of international rules of economic activity and world trade.
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Money is the best rule of commerce.
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Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
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The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.
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Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.
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People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems... But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else... since I'll be laughing on one of them, for you it'll be as if all the stars are laughing. You'll have stars that can laugh!... and it'll be as if I had given you, instead of stars, a lot of tiny bells that know how to laugh.
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I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable.
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Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.
