"There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain."

-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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“The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.”
“Homemade sweaters are always itchy.”

Source : "Knitters' Revenge". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Carl Kasell, www.npr.org. August 17, 2013.
“It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the authorities - that is to say, I can get out my hostilities - because I'm protected in my conscience by the knowledge that what I'm doing is morally right. I've never been so relaxed. I've never been so happy.”
“Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.”
“No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.”
“Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.”
“When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow.”
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.”

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