"There's little to see, but things leave an impression. It's a matter of time and repetition. As something old wears thin or out, something new wears in. The handle on the pump, the crank on the churn, the dipper floating in the bucket, the latch on the screen, the door on the privy, the fender on the stove, the knees of the pants and the seat of the chair, the handle of the brush and the lid to the pot exist in time but outside taste; they wear in more than they wear out. It can't be helped. It's neither good nor bad. It's the nature of life."

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Source : Wright Morris, James Alinder (1982). “Photographs & words”, Friends of Photography Bookstore

Wright Morris

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“A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out that many of them illustrate a collection of gruesome stories, murders and suicides which contrast with the images used. There is a contrast between the message carried by the text and that suppressed by the illustration.”
“I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county than in the hands of a politically appointed judge.”
“Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.”
“Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.”
“Frankly, health care and politics are "inextricably intertwined."”

Source : "WellPoint CEO: Wasted Opportunity for Real Reform". Interview with Joseph Rago, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 6, 2010.
“Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale Is wild within me! what may quell That sullen tempest? I must sail Whither, O whither, who can tell!”

Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.80
“Kiss me, and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me. Hold me like you'll never let me go.”

Source : Song: Leaving On a Jet Plane
“I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse.”

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