"I began drawing probably when I was - around the same time everybody else puts a mark on a piece of paper with a crayon - when I was two, probably. The difference between me and everybody else is, I kept doing it for the rest of my life; there was something very satisfying about that."

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Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

David Small

“One doubt, one voice, one war, one truth, one dream....”
“An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.”
“Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.”
“Write 100 things that you love about your partner. It's another way of keeping yourself in check. It's hard to do.”
“Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.”
“A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.”
“The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . . . But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty - and when the captor in war . . . thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable.”
“At a touch, he explodes like a snapdragon into loud purrs.”

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