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“The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.”
Source : Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.184, Simon and Schuster
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“We know the costs of Europe. What are the benefits?”
Source : "Record bill for EU is £19bn". www.thesun.co.uk. August 1, 2012. 
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“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”
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“I have learned that God’s silence to my questions is not a door slammed in my face. I may not have the answers—but I do have him.”
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“Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.”
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“The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting as sovereign and independent communities.”
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“I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago”
