"A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect."

-- John Jay Chapman

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“What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.”
“If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.”
“What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.”
“Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who as a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all.”
“Every marriage is a battle between two families struggling to reproduce themselves.”
“I'm a big David Lynch fan.”
“This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.”
“The voice that breathed o'er Eden, That earliest wedding day.”

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