"I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain."

-- Jackson Browne

#Reading Quotes #Grew Up Quotes #Mark Quotes

“I got drafted into the army and by pure chance was pushed into a silk-screen shop at this camp where I was, because they could not get training posters fast enough out of a central source in Washington, D.C. So they set up their own shop to print training posters: how to dismantle a machine gun, etc.”
“The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.”
“Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.”

Source : William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.30, Transaction Publishers
“Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.”
“It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.”
“The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows.”
“I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.”
“I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know”

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