"I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money."

-- Thelonious Monk

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“Art is man's refuge from adversity.”
“When white Americans frankly peel back the layers of our commingled pasts, we are all marked by it. Whether a company or an individual, we are marred either by our connections to the specific crimes and injuries of our fathers and their fathers. Or we are tainted by the failures of our fathers to fulfill our national credos when their courage was most needed. We are formed in molds twisted by the gifts we received at the expense of others. It is not our â€œfault.â€ But it is undeniably our inheritance.”

Source : Douglas A. Blackmon (2009). “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II”, p.394, Anchor
“We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air”
“Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.”
“We wish to continue in following up the legacy of the Second Vatican Council whose wise regulations have still to be led to their fulfilment, being careful that a push, generous perhaps, but unduly timed, does not detract from the content and meaning of the council, and on the other hand being careful and reined and timid efforts do not slow up the magnificent drive of renewal and of life.”

Source : "Pope John Paul will continue policy of reform" by Peter Nichols, The Times, p. 1, August 27, 1978.
“I enjoy anything to do with music.”
“I'm not a breakfast eater.”
“To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it.”

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