"Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are."

-- Wynton Marsalis

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“When I was editor of the Erotic Review I fielded endless phone calls from elderly readers who thought I might like to pop round in my spare time and thrash them”
“There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.”
“You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.”
“Back in the early 1960s, when I was eight or nine. Some neighborhood boys and I saw a disc-shaped, windowless object that hovered, silent, then simply vanished. My parents said, "That's very nice" and ignored it, but I knew what I'd seen, and it was life-changing.”

Source : "UFOs: What the Government Really Knows" by Jean-Noel Bassior, November 2005.
“I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union... I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden.”
“If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.”
“I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I've done three TV shows. It's quite interesting.”
“I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.”

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