"A bugler sounded the Last Post. Heartbreak made audible."

-- Nuala O'Faolain

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“Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of other people. What can you do?”

Source : Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”
“On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer Shapiro.' . . . Shapiro does original research, earning his 1,067-page volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.”
“1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough.”
“Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never would have been able to do that in the cotton country of Arkansas.”

Source : "Journalist Isabel Wilkerson". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2010.
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
“A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.”
“Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.”
“If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.”

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