"Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it."

-- Bertolt Brecht

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“You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.”
“You already said that,â€ Sabine said, folding the wrapper back from her burger. â€œYou said it a lot, actually. Which supports my theory that apologies are basically pointless. They donâ€™t fix anything, right? Thatâ€™s why I rarely bother.”
“One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them.”

Source : Bel Kaufman (1964). “Up the Down Stair Case”
“Who needs enemies when you've got Republican Surrenderists for Obamacare waiting in the wings?”
“I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you.”
“I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.”
“I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three Bs: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities.”

Source : "Alice's Wonderland" by Rebecca Mead, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.
“Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.”

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