"When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts."

-- Robertson Davies

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“The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.”
“Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it”
“They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their next look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.”

Source : Andrew Holleran (1978). “The Dancer from the Dance: A Novel”, William Morrow & Company
“Flattery'll get you anywhere.”

Source : "Fictional character: Dorothy Shaw". "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", www.imdb.com. 1953.
“A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.104, Petrarca Press
“And just everyone in the 40s, you got to realize, for his time period, take Justin Bieber and put it on ***** - there was no one like Frank Sinatra before that. And you didn't have the amount of outlets that you have today and the variety that you have today. So, the Great American Songbook united the nation unlike any other music, because there weren't so many different kinds of communications.”
“But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.”

Source : Edmund Waller, John Denham (sir.) (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and sir John Denham, with mem. and critical dissertation by G. Gilfillan”, p.98
“There was a period of a few months, however, when I had a dreadful physical pain. I had just started writing a particular section of the novel and was initially worried that it would affect my work. I was woken by awful nightmares; I saw several doctors, tests were performed, nothing came of them, and the medics were mystified.It was two days after I finished writing the section that the penny dropped. The pain had suddenly disappeared and so too had the nightmares. I'd got things muddled. The pain and the nightmares were both psychosomatic.”

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