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Leo Rosten
“An official brought the chief rabbi of a town before the Court of the Inquisition and told him, “We will leave the fate of your people to God. I’m putting two slips of paper in this box. On one is written ‘Guilty.’ On the other is written ‘Innocent.’ Draw.” Now this inquisitor was known to seek the slaughter of all the Jews, and he had written “Guilty” on both pieces of paper. The rabbi put his hand inside the box, withdrew a slip of paper—and swallowed it. “What are you doing?” cried the inquisitor. “How will the court know—” “That’s simple,” said the rabbi. “Examine the slip that’s in the box. If it reads ‘Innocent,’ then the paper I swallowed obviously must have read ‘Guilty.’ But if the paper in the box reads ‘Guilty,’ then the one I swallowed must have read ‘Innocent.”
Leo Rosten, The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated

Alexandra Christo
“They celebrate love as though it's power, even though it has killed far more humans than I ever have.”
Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

Judy Keeslar Santamaria
“She loaded 'Gypsy', her favorite Fleetwood Mac song, into the CD player and remembered dancing to the magical rhythms and harmonizing with her mother so long ago, virtually levitating as though the song lifted them, weightless as roof angels, above the living room floor.”
Judy Keeslar Santamaria, Jetty Cat Palace Café

“Certainly our market economy places less value on the work of cleaning houses or working in a child-care center than it does on financial management, the practice of medicine, or jobs in manufacturing. To the extent that these latter fields have been understood as male domain, they represent a piece of the male-dominated system that keeps women in subjugated roles.”
Sandra Hack Polaski, Inside the Red Tent

John Grisham
“Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.”
John Grisham, The Street Lawyer

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