"One day I gave Clifford a bath. And I combed his hair and took hom to the dog show. I'd like to say Clifford won first prize...but he didn't. I don't care. You can keep all your small dogs. You can keep all your black, white, brown, and spotted dogs. I'll keep Clifford...Wouldn't you?"

-- Norman Bridwell

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“Throw away those little pieces of paper. Get yourself a big, beautiful canvas. Bring from this nature the most beautiful colors. Find the serene scene within. Find the joy in each corner of your life. Sit still and feel what is within you. Sit still and paint like you have never painted before.”
“You got to understand, Arthur Alexander was there with us, and some of his crew. It was in the '50s in Alabama. It was before even the civil rights stuff even started. You can imagine the hatred, although we didn't have it as bad as other parts of the country, I must say.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Youâ€™re going to leave me, arenâ€™t you? â€¦ Youâ€™ve had enough of me, havenâ€™t you? Youâ€™re probably so tired of all this crying and all these moods, and Iâ€™ve got to tell you, so am I. So am I. Sometimes it seems like my mind has a mind of its own, like I just get hysterical, like itâ€™s something I canâ€™t control at all. And I donâ€™t know what to do, and I feel so sorry for you because you donâ€™t know what to do either. And Iâ€™m sure youâ€™re going to leave me now.”
“Whatever charm thou hast, be charming.”
“Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.”
“It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not only is the theological "Christ of faith" a synthetic construct of theologians, a symbolic "Uncle Sam" figure, but if you could travel ... back to First-Century Nazareth, you would not find a Jesus living there.”
“I stayed a kid for a pretty long time, and the logistics of being in a band, I did not take seriously at all.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“If someone is identifying themselves based on their orientation toward a person of the same gender, then that seems to me to be a self-evident disorder.”

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