"Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball."

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Andrew Vachss

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“Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.”

Source : Alice Duer Miller, “Forsaking All Others Part 4”
“National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with the democratic order.”
“Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.”

Source : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. October 2004.
“The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.”
“Maybe something is wrong with me but I just think I'm normal. I'm not super-skinny but I'm not super-fat. But I don't really care about what other people say.”
“The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing ***** plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.”

Source : Mark Haskell Smith (2012). “Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup”, p.33, Broadway Books
“Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.”

Source : Meriwether Lewis (2012). “History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.”, p.197, tredition
“You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.”

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