"The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows."

-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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“i hate not knowing what i did." _Eric”
“It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.”
“Isn't it my right to talk and say what I want to?”

Source : "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. October 14, 2005.
“One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.”
“There are only two kinds of class: First class and no class.”
“And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.”
“To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to have peace without slump, the tactics and policies of the practical right must be overcome. The political and economic power of both must be broken. The power of these giants of main drift is both economically and politically anchored; both unions and an independent labor party are needed to struggle effective.”
“My heart, far too sensitivefor this human world.My heart, so easily wounded, sheds rose tears of compassion.”

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