"A hundred things may come up to distract him and attempt to drive him away, but his picture is of paramount importance."

-- Roger McDonald

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“The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.”
“The dream of romantic love is taken more seriously in North America than it is anywhere else in the world, which is why we believe in fidelity and why we believe in infidelity as well. It is also, of course, what makes our divorce rate as high as it is. Falling in love at first sight and instant gratification are part of the world in which we live, so there are people who believe adamantly in fidelity. They just don't believe in it for long.”
“Have you really read all those books in your room?â€ Alaska laughing- â€œOh God no. Iâ€™ve maybe read a third of â€˜em. But Iâ€™m going to read them all. I call it my Lifeâ€™s Library. Every summer since I was little, Iâ€™ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.”
“One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.”
“It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.”
“Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.”
“Only the rich can get justice, only the poor cannot escape it.”

Source : Henry Demarest Lloyd, Alun Munslow, Owen R. Ashton (1995). “Henry Demarest Lloyd's critiques of American capitalism, 1881-1903”, Edwin Mellen Pr
“We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.”

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