"The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month."

-- Ed Bradley

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“It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; itâ€™s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, â€˜live always at the â€˜edge of mysteryâ€™Ââ€”the boundary of the unknown.â€™ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.”

Source : Rebecca Solnit (2006). “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”, p.8, Penguin
“Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances--mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch in the atmosphere of industry.”
“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.”
“People are beautiful wrecks.”
“Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.”

Source : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”
“If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.”
“The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.”
“I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot longer to figure out how to write a story.”

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