"During a very busy life I have often been asked, "How did you manage to do it all?" The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly."

-- Richard Tangye

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“I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.”
“In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.”
“That's what life is for, to find that joy in yourself.”
“When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.”
“You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.”
“Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that Americans now look back to with such nostalgia was achieved only by a colossal reigning in of markets, by the gargantuan effort of mass, popular organizations like labor unions and of the people themselves, working through a series of democratically elected governments not daunted by the myths of the market.”
“I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.”
“I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us towards the ultimate reality.”

Source : Harvard Review, Issues 20-21, p. 26, 2001.

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