"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."

-- Mark Twain

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“A baby who cannot relax can be helped to do so by a variety of constant rhythmical stimuli. it will work if the trouble is some kind of general and diffuse irritability or tenseness which is preventing a tired baby relaxing into sleep. The burring sound of a fan or heater works excellently. So does the sound of a car engine.”
“I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.”
“The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but autumn best of all. The squirrels in their silver fur will fall Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot.”

Source : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.17, Kent State University Press
“To some people everything is permitted.”
“We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was that it was so ordinary. Nobody had ever done it before, deliberately. Now it's called documentary, which I suppose is all right ... We just took pictures that cried out to be taken.”

Source : Ben Shahn (1972). “Ben Shahn”
“Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.”
“Germany suffered most as a consequence of this Peace Treaty and the general insecurity which was bound to arise from it.Â The unemployment figure rose to a third of the number usually employed in the nation, which means, however, that by counting the families of the unemployed as well there were 26 million people in Germany out of a population of 65 millions faced by an absolutely hopeless future.”
“A basic rule of baking is that, in general, it's almost impossible to make an inedible batch of brownies.”

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