"The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it."

-- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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“I will follow the upward road today; I will keep my face to the light. I will think high thoughts as I go my way; I will do what I know is right. I will look for the flowers by the side of the road; I will laugh and love and be strong. I will try to lighten another's load this day as I fare along.”
“We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims.”
“Some actors don't mind it. Those who are pretty. They think it's nice to be looked at because they are nice to look at. I appreciate that. I'm very happy to salute that aspiration. But I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.”
“If you are ready to die, then you are ready to live.”
“How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape.”

Source : John Marin, Nannette Vicars Maciejunes, Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1991). “Trees as Seen Through the Eyes of John Marin and Charles Burchfield: May 1991”
“Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.”
“Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing.”
“Everything I write is about me.”

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