"Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it."

-- Walter Darby Bannard

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“But simply someone who broke the law, came here, say, 'I'll give you citizenship now,' that I don't think is going to happen.”

Source : "Meet The Virginian Shaping The House GOP's Immigration Plan". "Morning Edition" with David Welna, www.wfdd.org. February 21, 2013.
“The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And something terrible resides at the heart of wonder. Celebration is social, amenable. Wonder has a chaotic splendor.”

Source : Patricia Hampl (1993). “Spillville: A Collaboration”, Milkweed Editions
“At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.”
“she's the only thing that's made my life worth living and if that's all I get, a few months with her- a few days, it's more than I've ever hoped for (Luke)”
“I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.”
“Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.”
“On more than one occasion David, in his urge to explore the darker corners of the bookshelves, had found himself wearing strands of spider silk in his face and hair, causing the web's creator to scuttle into a corner and crouch balefully, lost in thoughts of arachnoid revenge.”
“One fish. Two fish. Red fish. Blue fish. Black fish. Blue fish. Old fish. New fish. This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say! What a lot of fish there are.”

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