"To desire to be an artist is to desire to be a complete man in respect to some one function, to realize yourself utterly. A man is a poor thing who is content not to be an artist."

-- Charles Horton Cooley

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“Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.”
“As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.”
“Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.”
“When it's one animal, you really do have a tougher time because you've gotta commit to story structures that maybe are difficult to find the range in the animal to tell those stories. There are only so many things they do, if they're living in the natural world, that we can appreciate. There are plenty of things that they do that we don't appreciate.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The best approach to sex for girls is, quote,'lying on your back and thinking of England.'”
“Everybody wants to be famous. You have to be ready to deal with consequences.”

Source : "Fat Joe Talks Pun's Wife, Writing Hit Songs & Sneaker Shopping". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. May 5, 2009.
“Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.”
“I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time. You know, it's lie-around-the-bed time, it's sitting-like-a-dope-in-your-chair time. And that seems to me essential to any work.”

Source : Grace Paley, Gerhard Bach, Blaine H. Hall (1997). “Conversations with Grace Paley”, p.110, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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