IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Toms Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. – Carl Clinton Van Doren
My life isnt that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just cant talk on the phone. Hes too crippled and shy, and thats almost harder. Hes there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, its just impossible to have a relationship. – Joey Lauren Adams
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. – Havelock Ellis
