"All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening."

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Source : "The Knock at the Stage Door". Reader's Digest, December 1933.

Alexander Woollcott

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“He smiled, she smiled, they knew right away, this was the day they'd waited for their whole lives, for a moment the whole world revolved around one boy & one girl.”
“The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface, and that is why we loved Helvetica very much.”

Source : "Helvetica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.
“It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others.”
“A lot of people are not meant to be together.”
“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”
“In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.”

Source : Fernando Botero (1972). “Fernando Botero”
“The more two people open to each other, the more this wide-openness also brings to the surface all the obstacles to it: their deepest, darkest wounds, their desperation and mistrust, and their rawest emotional trigger points. Just as the sun's warmth causes clouds to arise by prompting the earth to release its moisture, so love's pure openness activates the thick clouds of our emotional wounding, the tight places where we are shut down, where we live in fear and resist love.”
“My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.”

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