"The wicked at heart probably know something."

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“Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our thoughts and illuminate each one of our perceptions.”
“It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.”
“If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary to have clearly before you what you require . . . It is certainly tasteless and inconsistent to desire to encompass the world with a garden-wall, but very practicable and reasonable to make a garden . . . into a characteristic whole to the eye, heart, and nderstanding alike.”
“I stopped taking drugs [in 1983]. There were a lot of things that led up to it. One thing was that a lover died. An ex of mine died in a car wreck and I was really trashed when I found out about it and I couldn't cry. I woke up the next morning and I said, "That's it," so I quit then. It was horrible.”
“At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I write only for myself, I realize that I have an imaginary circle of peers - writers and respected or savvy theatre folk, some dramatic writers and some not, some living, some long gone. . . . Often a writer is aware as he works that a certain critic is going to hate this one. . . . You don't let what a critic might say worry you or alter your work; it might even add a spark to the gleeful process of creation.”

Source : "The Critic On My Shoulder" by Lanford Wilson, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1996.
“Round numbers are always false.”
“Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.”

Source : George Edward Woodberry (1920). “Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses”
“You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.”

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