"Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highestquality toyourmomentsasthey pass,and simply for those moments'sake."

-- Walter Pater

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“Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.”

Source : Eric Berne (2011). “Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis”, p.156, Tantor eBooks
“Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity”
“I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.”
“Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.”
“I was fortunately able to avoid getting into any trouble with police. There was - I remember I was 12, and I did something really (laughter) - a couple of friends, Cinco de Mayo - we were off school, and we saw some people looking like they were having a party. And we had a little bit too much time on our hands, and so we figured, as kids, a great idea would be to throw some things over the fence and hit all these people with stuff, like eggs and everything.”
“For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from.”

Source : "Sen. Landrieu: Government made recovery 'difficult'". "Meet the Press" with Brian Williams, www.nbcnews.com. August 29, 2010.
“Baltimore was never intended to be anything other than this original novel that Chris Golden and I did together. There was never any thought of this thing going on and becoming a series. If there's any common thing between these characters, it's that they weren't anything I was seeing in comics. Almost everything I've done is something I wish somebody else was doing, because it's what I'd like to read.”

Source : "Graphic Novel Friday: Interview with Mike Mignola (Part Two)". Interview With Alex Carr, www.amazonbookreview.com. December 5, 2013.
“I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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