"There were a lot of artists in St. Ives. In fact, since the time of Whistler, St. Ives has been noted as an artist colony."

-- Warren MacKenzie

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“Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights, drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.”

Source : Song: Dropkick Me Jesus
“You promised you wouldn't tell her," she says, pointing at me. "What happened to protecting her?" "I changed my mind," I say. Tris laughs, harshly,"That's what you told him, that he would be protecting me? That's a pretty skillful manipulation. Well done.”
“When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything, do all they can to shut it out. Noli mi tangere. They are well aware that any intimate relationship has pain in it, forces a special kind of awareness, is costly, and so they try to keep themselves unencumbered by shutting pain out as far as it is possible to do so.”
“Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.”
“All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.”
“Man is not made for the state; the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him to the status of a thing, rather than elevate him to the status of a person. Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.”
“With my work I attempt to help man to overcome his alienation; I do this by surrounding his daily life with objects, which confront him in a tactile way with the final and deepest problems of our existence. I want the means that I employ to create the necessary stimulus to be as direct as possible. Instead of giving a sermon on humility, I often prefer to depict humility itself.”
“But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind”

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