"Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway! ... You have been my body's health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were."

-- Robert Walser

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“Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.”
“We [Cleveland Browns] are from the same segments of America that everyone else is from. We have the same diversity, the same mix, so we don't run away from issues amongst each other, because we're brothers and we have to build that bond because we're always on the quest to be world champions. That's always our quest, and if you don't have that bond, it's not going to happen. So I guess every locker room is different, but our locker room I think is more than fine.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows.”

Source : John Hall Wheelock (1963). “What is Poetry?”
“My fans mean more to me than they will ever know. I call these people my friends and my confidence and if they are here to see me and they are here to support me, then that's all I need in life.”
“I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.”

Source : "Expressing 'the Misery and Confusion Truthfully'". Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, American Drama, Volume 14, No. 1 (p. 87), Winter 2005.
“I canâ€™t see through clothes or anything. Just glamour skin. Except I can see through all of you, since your clothes arenâ€™t real.â€ I stopped, horrified. â€œI mean, I donâ€™t lookâ€”Itâ€™s hard to see you, and I like looking at your real face, but I donâ€™t try to see anything, becauseâ€”Oh gosh, this sounds terrible.â€ He had a funny look on his face, like he wasnâ€™t sure what to think. â€œHuh. Thatâ€™s never been an issue before. Maybe next time you could bring me some shorts.”
“Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.”
“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”

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