"Artworks, whether fiction, music, or painting, because they have the power and possibility to become truth, when repeated enough or told enough are somehow truth about what America is, whether they were or not."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Cynthia Daignault

#America Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Painting Quotes

“I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.”
“I'm glad it was me and not you, Mr. President.”
“Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of being self-centered.”
“Any man who doesn't believe in carrying weapons on a first date is not a man worth knowing.”
“It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of woman's life is that ...”
“Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.”
“The lurking tragedy: The chances are that an accident will some day happen to you at a friend's dinner table ... As long as water and coffee and jelly exist, a certain percentage of each will necessarily be overturned upon a like number of snowy white tablecloths. Usually the tragedy is really no one's fault.”

Source : Mary Elizabeth Clark, Margery Closey Quigley (1939). “Etiquette Every Child Should Know”
“I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.”

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