"In art as in life, some things need no translation."

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Source : Paula Vogel (1992). “The Baltimore Waltz”, p.24, Dramatists Play Service Inc

Paula Vogel

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“What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.”
“And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.”

Source : Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)
“We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.”
“If you're going to perform inception, you need imagination. You need the simplest version of the idea-the one that will grow naturally in the subject's mind. Subtle art.”
“So often the pendulum contines to swing with the side that has just pulled themselves out of the hole.”
“The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: Masonry and Communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land.”

Source : "Masonry and Communism" by Jakin Boor (the alias of Francisco Franco) in the journal "Arriba" (December 14, 1946); later quoted in Juan Pablo Fusi Aizpurua "Franco: A Biography" (p. 71), 1985.
“I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.”
“You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.”

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