"Death mattered not -- It was a mere puncutation"

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Source : Nathan Irvin Huggins (2011). “Black Odyssey”, p.13, Vintage

Nathan Huggins

“If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.”
“I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income.”
“After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.”
“Pre-mature ejaculation. Let's talk about it. Pre-mature ejaculation. That's a pretty fancy term for, Ooooooh Oh no. This has never happened before.”
“We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won't flinch at when they find.”
“Art ... is as much a source of happiness for the beginner as for the master. One forgets everything in one's work ...”

Source : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”
“I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective somehow.”

Source : "Director Andrew Dominik Talks KILLING THEM SOFTLY, His Desire to Release a New Cut of JESSE JAMES, His Marilyn Monroe Biopic BLONDE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 29, 2012.
“I told you I didn't want to fight with Charlie." "Nobody said that you had to." I glowered at him. "I can't help myself when he gets all bossy like thatâ€•my natural teenage instincts overpower me.”

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