"We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning."

-- Katherine Dunham

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“Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.”
“Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.”
“Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.”
“I'm always having ideas. I'd like to continue being able to realise the ideas I have.”
“All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its story. It wants to dissolve like a thousand writhing snakes that with a flick of kindness become harmless strands of rope.”
“You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.”

Source : "Nonconformity: Writing on Writing". Book by Nelson Algren, 1996.
“It is discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood.”
“Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.”

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