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Gene Edwards

"You can easily tell when someone has been hit by a spear. he turns a deep shade of bitter. David never got hit. Gradually, he learned a very well-kept secret... One, never learn anything about the fashionable, easily mastered art of spear throwing. Two, stay out of the company of all spear throwers. And three, keep your mouth tightly closed. In this way, spears will never touch you, even when they pierce your heart."

Source : "A Tale of Three Kings". Book by Gene Edwards, 1980.

Gene Edwards

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“I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.”
“beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade”

Source : William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”
“[A] person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.”

Source : Sharon M. Draper (2012). “Out of My Mind”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
“The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countriesâ€™ shares within their regional limits. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits.”
“When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know -- is their true purpose and mission in life. Sadly, this knowledge was never sought out by their parents, and explains why childrens books are a very hot and lucrative industry. Instead of telling your child the truth of our history and existence, you are conditioned by society to simply read your kid a fairytale.”
“The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.”

Source : Joseph Wood Krutch (1995). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”
“The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the same and who made their eyes see the world in the same way, men who went against the pattern of life's diversity, men whose spirits shattered the natural wall of the individual body, making nothing of this barrier, set up to guard against mutual corrosion, men whose spirit accomplished what flesh could never accomplish.”
“There was so much going on. I remember a very interesting dinner in the studio of [Robert] Rauschenberg. He had convinced Sidney Janis, Leo Castelli, and a third big gallery man to serve us, the artists, at the table. So they were dressed up as waiters, we were sitting at the table, and they were only allowed to sit down at the end of the table for the cognac. This is not possible now.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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