"Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings."

-- James Branch Cabell

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“The cable operators are paying to show content. The most important content you have is the broadcast stations. They take the position that over the air is free to people, so it should be free to them.”
“The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.”
“I regret nothing, but I am sorry that I am about to leave my friends.”
“One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.”

Source : Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.210, Bantam
“If you dropped me off a space platform onto the ground where a line was drawn, I would fall to the left side of it. I believe the difference between right and left is that the right, for the most part, the bulk of their philosophy is interested in property, and the rights of people to own property and gain and acquire and keep property. And I think on the left - though they blend and mix - on the left primarily you will find people who are more concerned about humans, and the human condition, and what can be done.”
“Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.”
“Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.”
“I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.”

Source : Roseline Bacou, Odilon Redon (1987). “Odilon Redon: pastels”, George Braziller

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