"In a way, watching an attractive, potentially dangerous guy play guitar is a little like watching a tiger agree to do tricks for his trainer. You know that they could just turn and kill you. But you're so flattered and pleased that instead they agreed to stand on a decorative box and wave and count for the crowd that for a while you forget how big the scary part of them really is."

-- Merrill Markoe

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“Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.”
“Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.”
“I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.”
“The worst part of fame is not always knowing what Iâ€™m doing the next day”
“Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail and rain. The horizon was choked in fog.”
“Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.”

Source : Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.91, Beacon Press
“Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.”

Source : John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.30, New Society Publishers
“There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its own limit of possibilities.”

Source : Fairfield Porter, Rackstraw Downes (1979). “Fairfield Porter: art in its own terms : selected criticism, 1935-1975”, Taplinger Publishing Company

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