"On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti."

-- Paul Goldberger

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“The list of fun and easily fixed brain diseases is very short.”
“That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.”
“I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.”
“Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.”
“The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.”
“Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who are more famous. His capacities are solidly established; his promise is nearly infinite.”
“The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.”

Source : "Mae Whitman on TMNT, blending into Arrested Development, and acting with Coach Taylor". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2013.
“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

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