"Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it.”
“Our love is the reason romance was created.”
“It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.”
“I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.”
“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”

Source : A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)
“Some people wouldn't say I coached in the National Football League. I coached with the Raiders, right?”
“Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.”

Source : "'Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom,' by Queen Latifah". abcnews.go.com. May 05, 2010.
“It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things...”

Source : Interview with Ryan Boudinot, www.pifmagazine.com. November, 1998.

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