"If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it."

-- Charles Baudelaire

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“It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.”
“Love may be the best driving wheel, but anger is a pretty good second.”
“Initiative is at the heart of manhood”
“The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.”
“You create your own audience, and your own community of peers, and in some ways you create your own forebears as well.”
“Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.”
“My 13-year-old daughter leaves the house at 7:15 every morning and takes a smelly city bus to school way uptown. It's like 8 degrees out, and it's dark and she's got this morning face and I send her out there to take a bus. Meanwhile, my driver is sitting in a toasty Mercedes that's going to take me to work once both kids are gone. I could send her in the Mercedes and then have it come back to get me, but I can't have my kid doing that. I can't do that to her. Me? I earned that fâ€”ing Mercedes. You better fâ€”ing believe it.”
“A truthmaker is an entity in virtue of which the proposition it makes true is true. And it is a necessary condition of being a truthmaker (though not a sufficient one) that a truthmaker necessitates the proposition it makes true.”

Source : "Truthmaking". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com.

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