"there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be."

-- Gertrude Stein

“We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.”
“There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.”
“There's so much testosterone when you raise three boys, so much energy ... I don't think as a parent you're meant to control them, you're meant to guide them. Especially with their dynamic personalities, that's the challenge and that's half the fun - trying to keep them on the tracks.”
“It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal.”

Source : Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.839, Penguin
“Slogan-making is not poetry.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“But some secrets are too delicious not to share.”
“The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.”

Source : "Roman Coppola Is Young At Heart". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2012.
“Healthy church membership means you find your joy in being last, instead of seeking your way and being first.”

Source : Thom S. Rainer (2013). “I Am a Church Member: Discovering the Attitude That Makes the Difference”, p.73, B&H Publishing Group

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