"The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog."

-- Algernon Charles Swinburne

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“A little boy who's discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it's screwing Mommy.”
“To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.”
“In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.”
“Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.”
“Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'”
“No, I'm not! I'm not a tomboy! I love my makeup! That's not true! I'm not a tomboy!”
“Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”

Source : Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.72, Faber & Faber
“What is forgiven is usually well remembered.”

Source : Louis Dudek (1992). “Paradise: Essays on Myth, Art & Reality”, Vehicule Press

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