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“Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.”

Source : John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Of course I had the parallel of having the early years of my life being spent during apartheid, and then having a lot of awful poverty going on around me while I lived in this bubble of middle-classness, but I was a child, and I only really started to (I hope) understand all of that fairly recently.”
“I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!”
“What I had to do was learn how to tell stories with my pictures. At first I didn't even know what that meant because I thought I was already doing it. After all these years of drawing stories and trying to teach it, I think it boils down to a pretty simple rule: it takes time to get to know the characters in a book and the world they inhabit. My first sketches are always horrible. Stereotypical. Contrived. Generic. I have to put in the time in order to deepen them and have it all mean something.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank...”
“All you've got is the word of a fool dog. It's been my experience that a bloodhound is the foolishest dog that is. I don't remember of anybody ever keeping a bloodhound for a yard dog. They're such dad blasted fools.”
“I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s.”
“Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.”

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