"Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is."

-- Joni Eareckson Tada

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“I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.”
“It's so hard to give beauty a meaning. I actually find quite a lot of beauty in really painful things. Really grotesque things. Things that are disturbing. I think as you go and as you see things in the world, your idea of beauty expands and I think I'm lucky because I've been exposed to so many different types of beauty and I've realized that any feeling you cherish is beautiful.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives; Over and over To the lowly clover He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too). He will be lisping and pledging to you.”
“In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid.”
“I have dual citizenship; I would be happy to go to England. I would be very happy to go to America.”
“Honor modesty more than your life.”
“My best beauty secret is simple: Have the right palette and the right colors and remember, you need so much less makeup than you think.”
“The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.”

Source : "Art Spiegelman On The Future of the Book". Interview with Brian Heater, www.publishersweekly.com. October 11, 2011.

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