"To do good, you actually have to do something."

-- Yvon Chouinard

“In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future”
“I'm in the middle of my own 'Project Runway' challenge given to me by my daughter's preschool. All the parents have to make an outfit for their kids, for school pictures, made entirely out of recycled objects. I can not believe I have homework.”
“I'm too drunk to taste this chicken”
“Iâ€™m just not interested.â€ â€œDo you have ovaries?â€ Jacob asked. I shot him a look. â€œYes.â€ â€¦ â€œThen how are you not interested.”
“I don't think unfriending your old crush on Facebook will do much other than remove him from your Facebook feed. Don't beat yourself up over what you dream about; there are a lot worse things that could slip across the transom of your unconscious mind than an old high school crush who was always nice to you.”
“A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also.”

Source : John Gower (1857). “Confessio amantis”, p.147
“It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.”
“What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.”

Source : Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery (1975). “Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections”

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