"The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?"

-- Richard Land

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“School is one thing. Education is another. The two donâ€™t always overlap. Whether youâ€™re in school or not, itâ€™s always your job to get yourself an education.”
“I was floating around in the Garden of Eden, thrilled to be a human being at the Human-Be-In, knowing the world could be saved if we loved one another. I was draped in flowers, bestowed upon me by my brothers and sisters. I was laughing, loving, breathing Princess of Peace...”
“I think the clearest manifestation for anyone who doubts that racism and classism exist in America, all one need do is take a real serious objective look at our criminal justice system.”
“Culture isn't all just about what can be tweaked and twitched in the simplest possible way. As people move around, they literally don't see what's around them, because they're wedded to earworms that are burrowing into their heads endlessly in a kind of negotiation with these tiny screens.”

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“I'm sort of a traditionalist usually. I love old soul music and The Beatles; I realized I was sort of trying to make music sometimes that fit into an era that's gone.”
“True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.”
“There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too.”
“I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.”

Source : John Betjeman (1994). “Letters: 1951 to 1984”

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