"Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort."

-- Willem de Kooning

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“I never sought to privatize Social Security.”

Source : "Can Sen. Saxby Chambliss End the Chance of a Democratic Super Majority?". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. December 2, 2008.
“If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.”
“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”
“The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day”

Source : "Changes". Poem by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, published in John Bartlett "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.
“Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.”
“We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.”
“To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise...Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dance, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself.”
“I love playing music. And that's what it's all about.”

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