"Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores."

-- Thomas Wolfe

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“The groups of which we are a part impact our decisions and our decisions shape the future.”
“Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.”

Source : "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" l. 1 (ca. 1589)
“[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.”

Source : Interview with Sam Aaronovitch, Marxism Today, June 1983.
“No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.”
“When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.”

Source : "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Book edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York, p. 93, 'Quotes', 1990.
“I think sometimes - do not we all? - that perhaps the present year is my last year and that all my busyness is foolish.”

Source : Marjorie Bowen (1951). “To Bed at Noon”
“I love macaroni and cheese. I could eat it every meal of the day. It used to be sushi, but these days I cannot stop eating mac and cheese. I haven't had it from a box in a long time, but I'll make it homemade style with four types of cheeses, lots of milk, maybe a little ketchup. I don't know, I'm crazy like that.”
“Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.”

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