"What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself."

-- Pablo Picasso

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“Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.”

Source : Louise Bogan (1970). “A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation”, New York : McGraw-Hill
“I was wanting to do an album but I didn't know if I was really ready. Jerry Wexler was one of my closest friends and allies, like my godfather. He said, "Let's do an album." I couldn't sing worth a damn, but there were some good songs.”

Source : "The Soulful DNA of Country Songwriter Donnie Fritts". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. October 08, 2015.
“The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real.”
“We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.”
“As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.”
“A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.”
“Right, and you point out something important which is that people who donâ€™t want to pay, people who are pirates, donâ€™t get bothered by the DRM, they go out and buy the cracked books or download the cracked books for free. Itâ€™s only people who are foolish enough to pay for them that get locked into these platforms.”
“The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.”

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