"On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence."

-- Matthew Arnold

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“My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.”
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it. How sweet to think of! my extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.”
“I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.”
“It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by the foolish.”

Source : Jill Johnston (1973). “Lesbian nation: the feminist solution”, Simon & Schuster
“On that very first day, when I queued up, in the thousands, I never expected to get very far”
“I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.”
“I believe.....this is my final word......I believe that I'm supporting the Constitution of the United States which does not give the right for any individual to own a handgun....”
“Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.”

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