"Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love."

-- Pope John Paul II

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“It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.”
“I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me, asking questions. One was, "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books.”
“When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!”
“It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.”
“Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.”
“Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2003.
“I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.”
“Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.”

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