Salem Quotes

• Creo que si hubiera vivido en Salem, me habrían quemado en la hoguera...

  Rose McGowan

  Thinking, Stakes, Burned

  FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Aug 21, 2013

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• Para mí no hay nada más cargado de misterio y terror que una remota granja de Massachusetts contra una colina solitaria. ¿En qué otro lugar podría haber ocurrido un brote como el de la brujería de Salem?

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Solitario, Massachusetts, Misterio

  Carta a Elizabeth Toldridge (9 de octubre de 1931), en "Selected Letters III, 1929-1931" editado por August Derleth y Donald Wandrei, (p. 423), 1971.

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• Incluso los mejores de nosotros tenemos ciertos mecanismos psicológicos que pueden activarse de repente y convertirnos en monstruos. Para mí, ése es el mensaje básico de acontecimientos como el auge del nazismo, los juicios por brujería de Salem, etc.: no es que la gente mala haga cosas malas, sino que la gente buena hace cosas malas. Es angustiosamente fácil que esos mecanismos se activen, ya sea conscientemente por demagogos, o ingenuamente por personas que creen que están tratando de hacer lo correcto. Por eso creo que es más parecido al tres en raya.

  Neal Stephenson

  Pensamiento, Juicios de Brujas, Gente

  Fuente: www.omnivoracious.com

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• If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.

  John Updike

  Born, Right Time, Burned

  Laurie G. Kirszner, John Updike (1998). “A and P”, Heinle & Heinle Pub

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• A las Iglesias Bautistas en Neal's Greek en Black Creek, Carolina del Norte He recibido, conciudadanos, su dirección, aprobando mi objeción al proyecto de ley que contiene una concesión de tierras públicas a la Iglesia Bautista en Salem Meeting House, Territorio de Mississippi. Habiendo considerado siempre la distinción práctica entre Religión y Gobierno Civil como esencial para la pureza de ambos, y como garantizada por la Constitución de los Estados Unidos, no podría haber cumplido de otro modo con mi deber en la ocasión que se presentó

  James Madison

  Government, Land, House

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• That to me is the basic message of events like the rise of Nazism, the Salem witch trials, and so on: not that bad people do bad things, but that good people do bad things.

  Neal Stephenson

  Witch Trials, People, Events

  "Neal Stephenson habla de su última epopeya: 'Seveneves'". Entrevista con Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. 21 de mayo de 2015.

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• If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Libro, Lectura, Personas

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.441, Modern Library

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• Mi próximo libro trata sobre los juicios de las brujas de Salem. Como chica de un pequeño pueblo de Massachusetts, esto me hace muy feliz. Y también el reencuentro con los documentos.

  Stacy Schiff

  Girl, Book, Witch Trials

  "Stacy Schiff, author of 'Cleopatra: A Life,' on the perfect biography subject". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com.

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• My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.

  Mark Twain

  People, Gentleman, Alive

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• We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

  Arthur Miller

  Children, Crazy, Writing

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.339, Penguin

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• Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I wish I had had a chance to meet him. To see his toothless grin and touch his leathery skin. To beg him, as you did in your youth, for a story from our Palestine. He was over one hundred years old, Mother. To have lived so long, only to be crushed to death by a bulldozer. Is this what it means to be Palestinian?

  Susan Abulhawa

  Madre, Hogar, Media

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• North Carolina is a fascinating state, because you've got these urban areas. You've got the Piedmont Triangle - Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point.

  Julianne Malveaux

  North Carolina, Triangles, Urban

  Fuente: www.democracynow.org

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• Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems were for alcoholics, and Mores were for people who considered themselves to be outrageous but really weren't.

  David Sedaris

  Sex, Writing, Class

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• Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.

  Rob Zombie

  Witch Trials, Average, Massachusetts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Siempre me he esforzado por adquirir hábitos comerciales estrictos; son indispensables para todo hombre. Si tu comercio es con el Imperio Celestial, entonces alguna pequeña casa de contabilidad en la costa, en algún puerto de Salem, será suficiente accesorio.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hombres, Casa, Imperios

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). "Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic", p. 17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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• With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.

  Joel Miller

  War, Thinking, Witch Trials

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• - L, did you know we’re reenacting the Salem witch trials in English tomorrow? - Haven’t been memorizing your case file? Do you even look in your backpack anymore? - Did you know my dad is videotaping it? I do. Because I walked in on his lunch date with Mrs. English. - Ewww. - What should we do? - I guess we should start calling her Ms. English? - Not funny, L.

  Kami García

  Dad, Witch Trials, Lunch

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• I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

  Anna Camp

  Art, Jobs, New York

  "Anna Camp Pushes Her Boundaries in 'Pitch Perfect' and 'The Mindy Project'". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.backstage.com. October 9, 2012.

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• What exists beneath the sea?I'd always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes swim among plankton.But, when my eyes adjust, I see gray stones, lost anchors, wet wood, buttons, hooks, and eyes, the salem witches who wouldn't float, stars and stripes, missing vessels, windup toys, the souls of Romeo and Juliet, peaches, cream, pistons, screams, cages of ribs and birds, tunnels, nutcracker soldiers, satin bows, drugstore signs, Pandora box ripped open at its hinges.

  Kelly Easton

  Stars, Eye, Color

  Kelly Easton (2001). “The Life History of a Star”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.

  John George Nicolay

  Law, Careers, Partnership

  John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History: Easyread Large Edition”, p.40, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In his play depicting the Salem Witch Trials, the author illustrates profound psychological bullying. The ringleader of young girls suspected of unsavory conduct, frightens her friends into silence by warning: Now, look you; All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters, and that was all. ... Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night, and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.

  Arthur Miller

  Girl, Bullying, Night

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• Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.

  John George Nicolay

  Sex, Ambition, Men

  John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History: Easyread Large Edition”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens rather than from fellow Christians. At any rate, very few Indians were converted, and the Salem folk believed that the virgin forest was the Devil's last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand. To the best of their knowledge the American forest was the last place on earth that was not paying homage to God.

  Arthur Miller

  Christian, Home, Land

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help the visitor understand how hard it must have been for the condemned to say the line about forgiving those who trespass against us.

  Sarah Vowell

  Prayer, Museums, Talking

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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