"one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty."

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Source : Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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“Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.”
“Noooo, thereâ€™s no way I, a mere handsome and sexy shopkeeper, could possibly have bankai!â€ â€” Urahara Kisuke”
“Music has always felt very real to me.”
“Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.”
“I have a daughter and a family.”
“In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.”
“The beautiful gift of my husband is that he saw me the way I've always wanted to be seen and there's something really powerful to that. When you find true love I really believe that that's what it is at its core. He makes me want to be a better person, but then he also sees me and reminds me that I am a good person.”

Source : Interview with Hillary Sawchuk, adrinkwith.com. March 22, 2016.
“There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.”

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