"I am an artist... I am here to live out loud."

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Emile Zola

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“The more I experience, the more I see that so many things in our future are planned for us, I think that what isn't planned for us is our attitude, and it's our attitude that can change our lives.”
“Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.”
“Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.”
“The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others.”
“my mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.”

Source : Edith Konecky, Alix Kates Shulman, Tillie Olsen (2001). “Allegra Maud Goldman”, p.107, Feminist Press at CUNY
“I donâ€™t know. Dâ€™you think? Heâ€™s pretty wide in the chest.â€ The girl looked at me, and I was frozen. So I said, â€œYeah. I work out.â€ Violet asked me, â€œWhat are you? Whatâ€™s your cup size?â€ I shrugged and played along. â€œLike, nine and a half?â€ I guessed. â€œThatâ€™s my shoe size.â€ Violet said, â€œI think heâ€™d like something slinky, kind of silky.â€ I said, â€œAs long as you can stop me from rubbing myself up against a wall the whole time.â€ â€œOkay,â€ said Violet, holding her hands up like she was annoyed. â€œOkay, the chemise last week was a mistake.”
“Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?”
“The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.”

Source : "Congressman Trey Gowdy On Leaks: ‘I Thought All Reporters Aspire’ To Go To Jail" By Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2012.

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