"At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School."

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Source : Mary Cassatt, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1970). “Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926”

Mary Cassatt

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“I think writing is really a process of communication. . . . It's the sense of being in contact with people who are part of a particular audience that really makes a difference to me in writing.”
“We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.”
“Ergo, it is not St. George who is the patron saint of England, but Set of the Hyksos. In general terms whenever the code term "red" is used in the Old Testament, it denotes the Hyksos dynasty. Connected to the Order of the Garter, is the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, formed in 1818. Aditionally, legend has it that the senior members of the Merovingian dynasty of France (founders of the Knights Templar) had birthmarks in the shape of a red cross.”
“My method is related to an attempt to do something that might be understood by today's world, or that could at least provide understanding. In other words, doing something I understand and that everyone understands. This natural desire for communication is also found in other domains, like reading and discourse, etc. I also hate repeating myself; it gives me no pleasure whatsoever. Once I've understood something, I need to start off on new ground.”
“Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.”
“Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader.”

Source : James Gould Cozzens (1978). “Just Representations: A James Gould Cozzens Reader”, Harvest Books
“Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil”
“Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs”

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