"Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesnâ€™t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different."

-- John Steinbeck

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“You know, we spend so much of our lives not saying the things we want to say. The things we should say. We speak in code, we send little messages. Origami. So now, plainly, simply. I want to say that I love you both.”
“It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.”

Source : "Artists on Art, from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, p. 442, 1972.
“Meditation is the best means of elongating life”
“There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.”
“My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.”
“Black churches are very powerful forces in the African American community and always have been. Because religion has been that one place where you have an imagination that no one can control. And so, as long as you know that you are a human being and nobody can take that away from you, then God is that reality in your life that enables you to know that.”
“I hope to grow another head and two more hands, like an Indian goddess.”
“All I know is that when I come to the ballpark I'm going to be on time and give 100 percent. I know that I have to do that to keep my job.”

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