"A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe."

-- John Ruskin

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“Basically, when I hear it now, I don't recognize myself directly in a lot of cases. I was expecting more menace. And the fact that it didn't seem menacing at first troubled me. Then I thought, What the hey, you know? I'm 66 years old, and I could just crack open a beer and listen to it, and it doesn't trouble me that it doesn't kill. Once upon a time, it probably would have.”

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“Everything I desire is within me.”
“If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored.”
“A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment of its institutions through interaction of the different forms of associated life is in so far democratic. Such a society must have a type of education which gives individuals a personal interest in social relationships and control, and the habits of mind which secure social changes without introducing disorder.”
“What was worse, he couldn't tell her how much he thought he maybe might kinda sorta love her.”
“Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].”
“One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.”
“If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce.”

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