"People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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“I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.”
“September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.”
“You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs to find a way of expressing itself in the modern world.”
“Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.”
“It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.”
“How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?”
“Every artist should live by these words: Never feel bad about successfully selling your creations. Never feel bad about creating art you can't sell.”

Source : Marc Ecko (2015). “Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out”, p.285, Simon and Schuster
“I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.”

Source : "Orioles' Palmeiro Suspended for Steroids". www.foxnews.com. August 1, 2005.

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