"Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies."

-- James Whistler

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“How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?" "Look it up in the phrase book.”
“The biggest sin against the poor and the hungry is perhaps indifference, making believe we do not see, passing by on the other side of the street.”
“Pennsylvania couldn't be prouder of our native son, Joe Biden from Scranton. No one knows us better than Joe.”

Source : "Transcript: Bob Casey". www.politico.com. August 26, 2008.
“When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.”
“Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.”
“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”

Source : The Book of Laughter and Forgetting pt. 1, sec. 2 (1980) (translation by Michael Henry Heim)
“To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”
“I opened my mouth wide one time to see if the words I was thinking would fall out, but they wouldnâ€™t. If words donâ€™t want to come out, they donâ€™t. I donâ€™t understand when people say things and then they say, I didnâ€™t mean to say that. Words donâ€™t just fall out. You have to push them out. And sometimes, you canâ€™t push them out, even if you want to.”

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