"I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs. But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not."

-- Patti Smith

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“He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.”
“Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.”
“I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.”
“Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior's] speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I seen" ever escaped the keen ears of his eldest sister, who immediately corrected him. Mother sometimes thought Katherine a little severe when, in the interest of proper speaking, she would stop him in the midst of an exciting account of a home-run. There were times, thought Mother, when the spirit of the thing was so much more important than the flesh in which it was clothed.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1999). “The Collected Short Works, 1920-1954”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press
“Dont confuse legibility with communication. Just because something is legible doesnt mean it communicates and, more importantly, doesnt mean it communicates the right thing.”

Source : "Helvetica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.
“The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.”
“The difference there is that the [Donald] Trump number on change is so much larger than the lead that the other two have in their lanes. And that's going to be the challenge for those other two going forward. The other challenge for Marco Rubio, and this assumption that you're just going to get all those Bush and Kasich voters.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts.”

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