#serene

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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#big #center #eye #fortunate #hear

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. ↗

— Rebecca West

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#certain #great #great music #music #sense

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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#love #pragmatic #serene #truth #beauty