pacifists lead a lonely life. Not even gathering together can take the place of that vast, warm sun … - Josephine Winslow Johnson

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I want to be an actress when I'm on set, not just a model. Those are the moments I live for.

Josephine Winslow Johnson

pacifists lead a lonely life. Not even gathering together can take the place of that vast, warm sun of approval that is shed on motherhood, on law-abiding, on killing, and on making money. Someday will we come into our own? Well, motherhood may move into the shade. Law-abiding is going through a trauma. But killing and making money are good for a long, long time.

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The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

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We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old roots. The old men have no roots. They don't know it. They just go on talking and flailing away and falling down on the young with their tons of dead weight and their power. For the power is still there, in their life-in-death. But the roots are dead, and the land is poisoned for miles around them.

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Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.

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Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.

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The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.

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