"Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void"

-- Hervey Allen

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“If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.”
“I have no skanky guys in my band nor on my bus. If they are they get the boot real quick”
“Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist.”
“I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].”
“Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.”
“They have vilified me, they have crucified me. Yes, they have even criticized me.”

Source : "Chicago Journal; Syntax Is a Loser in Mayoral Race" by William E. Schmidt, www.nytimes.com. February 2, 1989.
“I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.”
“Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.”

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