"I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry."

-- John Wain

“The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.”
“Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.”
“It was not very easy for a woman to impose herself as a modern artist in Germanyâ€¦ Most of our male colleagues continued for a long time to look upon us as charming and gifted amateurs, denying us implicitly any real professional status.”
“I think it's miraculous that anybody survives themselves.”
“Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.”
“What matters is not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do.”

Source : An "oft-repeated credo" according to the "Windsor Star", December 3, 1973.
“Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.”

Source : Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee (2016). “Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century”, p.67, Ballantine Books
“Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.”

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