"PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead."

-- Ambrose Bierce

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“Every actor wants to get their two cents in about a scene at the end of the day.”
“To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.”
“If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as you change your shirts.”

Source : "Picabia 1879-1953".
“If there is not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government.”
“What's the definition of a good flame? One you agree with...”
“Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.”
“Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense.”
“Turtles have always been my sigil, I suppose. When I was a kid, growing up in Bayonne, NJ, I lived in a federal housing project, and we were not allowed to have a dog or cats. The only pets I could have were turtles. So, I had an entire toy castle filled with dime-store turtles. I gave them all names, and since they were living in a toy castle, I decided they were all knights and kingsand I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom. So, Game of Thrones, actually began with turtles. I decided later to recast it with actual human beings.”

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