"I cross out words so you will see them more"

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

#Crosses Quotes

“Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.”
“People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there. ... I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ... I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.”
“Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.”

Source : Elizabeth Carter, Montagu Pennington (1807). “Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter,: with a new edition of her poems, some of which have never appeared before; to which are added, some miscellaneous essays in prose, together with her notes on the Bible, and answers to objections concerning the Christian religion”, p.465
“I wanted her body and soul, but body first.”
“It's easy to fight when everything's right And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer when victory's near, And wallow in fields that are gory. It's a different song when everything's wrong, When you're feeling infernally mortal; When it's ten against one, and hope there is none, Buck up, little soldier, and chortle!”

Source : Robert William Service, “Carry On”
“I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.”
“Extreme justice is often injustice.”
“Genius only comes to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.”

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