"When youâ€™re writing, youâ€™re trying to find out something which you donâ€™t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you donâ€™t want to know, what you donâ€™t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway."

-- James A. Baldwin

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“I would see anything by Antony Gormley.”
“Sometimes I steal costumes.”
“Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.”

Source : Howard Pyle, Howard P. Brokaw (1998). “History and Romance: Works by Howard Pyle from the Brokaw Family Collection : the Exhibition, April 4 Through May 17, 1998, Brandywine River Museum, Brandywine Conservancy, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania”
“Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.”
“Dress for the story that youâ€™d like to have people know about you before you even open your mouth.”
“I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.”

Source : "Last Night, Elizabeth Warren Became a Politician" By Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. September 6, 2012.
“Tim Bee has demonstrated his toughness and his compassion, his ability to lead while at the same time listening to others. These are skills few people in public life have. We need Tim Bee working for us in Congress.”
“From arts, to literature, to science, to the founding of Christian institutions, all of that has its roots in a biblical worldview, but when you fail to recognize that it's the systemic reality of the greatest civilization in the history of humanity, you can become apathetic about what you actually now have. We have something that generations of people did not have.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com

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