"The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in."

-- William Faulkner

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“People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.”
“If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.”

Source : William Penn (1849). “A key, opening the way to every capacity how to distinguish the religion professed by the people called Quakers, from the perversions and misrepresentations of their adversaries: With a brief exhortation to all sorts of people ...”, p.4
“When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.”
“Even if we want to eradicate our ghosts, our dead, our murdered, even if you erase a name and the record of the existence of a person, somebody remembers.”
“Ringo: 'I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I'm an emotional human being. I'm very sensitive and it took me till I was forty-eight to realize that was the problem! We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write - we all wrote - about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love.”
“The arts saved my life.”
“Maybe it's understandable what a history of failures America's foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people who came to America to get away from foreigners. Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America's miniature schnauzer -- a noisy but small and useless part of the national household.”
“I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people.”

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