"There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist."

-- Erica Jong

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“Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.”
“I was three over. One over a house, one over a patio, and one over a swimming pool.”
“My first name was inspired by the character of Aslan, the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.”
“There is a future for the auto parts industry, but it needs a consolidation and a rationalization of geography in that most suppliers have facilities in the U.S., although most of their customers are overseas.”
“Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.”
“A bunch of six nicer people, I couldnâ€™t be more fortunate to call my family â€” from Lee Pace, who is so dear. When I first saw him, I said heâ€™s like a Gary Cooper. Heâ€™s bashful, heâ€™s shy, heâ€™s sensitive, heâ€™s a great actor, heâ€™s beautiful, heâ€™s delicious.”
“A garden is never so good as it will be next year.”
“Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death. [Fr., Le ciel me prive d'une epouse qui ne m'a jamais donne d'autre chagrin que celui de sa mort.]”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 868-871), 1922.

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