"Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it."

-- Molly Haskell

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“There is a dessert dish in Austria called Kaiserschmarrn - it's kind of like a sweet raisin pancake with eggs and sugar. It's definitely not something I can eat often, but if I've done well at a race, sometimes that's my celebration treat!”
“What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.”
“I was sitting here without a shirt on, absentmindedly scratching my back with a pen for about five minutes and I just looked in the mirror and saw that I had drawn a nice mural on my back. It looks kind of like a map of Wyoming, with all the rivers and mountain ranges, or maybe a portrait of Bob Marley. Yes. Tablature”
“I really like when people do 'stream of consciousness' tweeting, or when people's tweets come across as sort of manic and mostly unedited.”

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“As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.”
“Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.”
“I have body hang-ups - but I work the best of what I've got.”
“I never met a color I didn't like.”

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