"I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball."

-- Bill Walton

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“In 1970 or '71, early in the magazine, Michael O'Donoghue did maybe eight pages of a 1958 yearbook, from Ezra Taft Benson High School. But by the time the [book-length] high-school yearbook came around, he didn't want to be involved.”
“The rise of video on demand will make it possible for small movies to earn back costs via $9.95 24-hour rentals and for people in cities without independent cinemas to see the kind of movies they never have before. That's great - but on the other hand, that's TV.”
“Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.”

Source : Aleister Crowley (2014). “Magick in Theory and Practice”, p.70, Lulu Press, Inc
“I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.”

Source : Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.195, A&C Black
“What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.”
“Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.”

Source : Paul Gauguin, Robert John Goldwater (1972). “Paul Gauguin”, Harry N Abrams Inc
“Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this (from which our sight we have) Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.”

Source : Sir John Denham (1751). “Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy”, p.108
“No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there.”

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