"Character is much easier kept than recovered."

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Source : Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.190

#Life Quotes #War Quotes #Integrity Quotes

“I was just thinking â€“ today is the first and last day of forever. Itâ€™s kind of hard to wrap my head around it. Even with all this extra room for wrapping.”
“When I started Fool's Gold and producing consistent records that were like electro beats with rapping on it that was experimental and weird. I made a mixtape called Dirty South Dance where I put rap vocals over dance music. That was literally an experiment. Now all these rappers are rapping on dance music. This is something I've been trying to build for a while.”
“If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up my book. I think the one thing that will kill that relationship is if you feel me condescending to you in the process.”
“One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art.”
“If I brought groceries the way I buy health insurance, I'd eat a lot better - and so would my dog.”
“When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.”
“I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.”
“You witness the artists acting as witnesses, but they provide a point of view that's less monolithic. It's less official in a certain way. Many artists are speaking in the first person singular, as a reaction to dubbed-over media commentary. The thought is: "Enough with how we're represented by the media. Let me tell the story."”

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