I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The trick to loneliness is to spend a lot of time inside one’s head.

~ Pat R

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Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

~ William Kennedy

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It [the Harlem Renaissance] was a time of black individualism, a time marked by a vast array of characters whose uniqueness challenged the traditional inability of white Americans to differentiate between blacks.

~ Clement Alexander Price

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