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“I know we’ve just met.” Harville Hendrix, Getting the Love You Want: A Guide For Couples (HarperPerennial, 1988), 50–51.
“never spoke of the softer passions.” Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Scandal in Bohemia,” Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Vol. I (Bantam Classic, 2003), 239. The “grit in a sensitive instrument” line appears on the same page.
“madness of love.” Plato, Phaedrus, Christopher Rowe, trans. (Penguin Classics, 2005). Most of the book is about madness and love.
“The fellow who kisses the mole on his mistress’ neck.” Erasmus, 112.
an armada of psychological research. For a particularly extreme example, see Janine Willis and Alexander Todorov, “First Impressions: Making Up Your Mind After a 100-Ms Exposure to a Face,” Psychological Science, Vol. 17, Number 7 (July 2006): 592–598.
“Everyone complains about their memory.” I came across this line in Kenneth R. Hammond’s Human Judgment and Social Policy: Irreducible Uncertainty, Inevitable Error¸ Unavoidable Injustice (Oxford University Press, 2000), 207.
As Thomas Gilovich has pointed out (FN). Gilovich, p. 47.
they still end—close to 40 percent of them. See e.g., “Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for June 2008,” National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 57, No. 11; or the data collected at divorcerate.org.
CHAPTER 13 TRANSFORMATION
I couldn’t have written this chapter without Osha Gray Davidson’s The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South (Scribner, 1996) and Studs Terkel’s interviews of C. P. Ellis and Ann Atwater, “Occurrence in Durham,” in Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel about the American Obsession (Doubleday, 1992), 271–283. Unless otherwise noted, Atwater and Ellis’s direct words come from Terkel, while Davidson provided the in-depth background on their life stories and on the history of race and class conflicts in North Carolina.
My account of the life of Whittaker Chambers is drawn from his autobiography, Witness (referenced above).
“We just had a real party at the service station.” Terkel, 278.
112 Klan chapters in the state. Davidson, 189. For the information about Helms, see pp. 118–119, 149.
“‘The Blacks are comin’ up tonight.’” Terkel, 273.
“I don’t intend to associate with a bunch of niggers.” Davidson, 251.
“how I just hated that black nigger.” Terkel, 271.
“The problem here today is niggers.” Davidson, 253. The Atwater quote that follows is from the same page.
“ain’t no way I can work with that gal!” Davidson, 259.
“help make desegregation less painful for white children.” Davidson, 261.
“You keep working with those niggers and you gonna get yourself shot.” Davidson, 264. The other threat in the same paragraph is from p. 261.
“I began to see, here we are, two people from the far ends of the fence.” Terkel, 275–276. Davidson also recounts the moment in the auditorium—by chance, also on pp. 275–276.
“I’d look at a black person walkin’ down the street.” Terkel, 274.
“What…had the Klan actually accomplished.” Davidson, 282.
“Something…has happened to me.” Davidson, 285–286.
his greatest professional accomplishment. Davidson, 292.
“Who can plumb its depths?” Augustine, Confessions, 196.
The brain is wider than the sky. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (Back Bay Books, 1976), 312.
Tom Watson (FN). Davidson, 66–67.
“what remains constant is better.” Augustine, Confessions, 133.
“evil, absolute evil.” Chambers, 80.
“I cannot say I changed.” Chambers, 83.
“he had always been a Communist at heart. Enid Starkie, “André Gide,” in Richard H. Crossman, ed., The God That Failed (Columbia University Press, 2001), 166.
“for I had placed myself behind my own back.” Augustine, Confessions, 169.
Carl Jung. See e.g., May, 62–63.
“For this I had been a Communist.” Chambers, 533.
“The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through.” G. W. F. Hegel, The Phenomenology of Mind, J. B. Baillie, trans. (Dover Philosophical Classics,