"Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else."

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Augustus William Hare

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“A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim aspect, known by the name and title of Doctor Grimshawe, whose household consisted of a remarkably pretty and vivacious boy, and a perfect rosebud of a girl, two or three years younger than he, and an old maid of all work, of strangely mixed breed, crusty in temper and wonderfully sluttish in attire.”
“Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States.”

Source : "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 14, 2010.
“The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.”
“Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.”
“I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.”
“Then she waited, with parted lips and a saucy challenge in her eyes, to see how her presence -- the drama of being her -- was registering. In the way of such chicks, she seemed convinced of the originality of her provocation.”
“I think some love you can stand to let go of because it's ultimately for the best, but other types you have to stick with until the day you die even when it's hard.You have to think about that before you run away from wherever you are. And then when you know, you either stay or you go and pray thatyou're making the right decision.”

Source : Nick Burd (2009). “The Vast Fields of Ordinary”, p.201, Penguin
“If the game is run properly as a professional game, you do not need 57 old farts running rugby.”

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