"What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before."

-- Mark Twain

#Wisdom Quotes #Book Quotes #Beer Quotes

“My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I'd have gone if he hadn't. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.”
“I feel cleaner on the days where I am painting as opposed to the periods when I am not, that is certain to me. In a sense it is a transfiguration, what comes at me in my life or what I see going on in the world comes out as something beautiful or hopefully beautiful.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous.”
“As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.”
“We suffer each other to have each other a while.”

Source : Li-Young Lee (1990). “The City in which I Love You: Poems”, p.68, BOA Editions, Ltd.
“He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.”
“The only thing that's in my control is to win ballgames and God is always taking care of me.”
“The end of the world will be legal.”

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