"I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well."

-- LeRoy Neiman

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“It is true that I had wanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting having been born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad to have been born, grateful for life, and I couldnâ€™t imagine not wanting to pass on life to someone else.”
“I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.”
“I love a novel thatâ€™s funny, and The Taxman Cometh is very funny, delightfully well-written, yet with a serious message about how government bureaucracy affects us all. Read. Enjoy. And if a comparison to Catch 22 pops into your mind, thatâ€™s not surprising.”
“Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your warm body. In whatever room Your warm body. Among all the people Your absence The people who are always Not you. I have been easy with trees Too long. Too familiar with mountains. Joy has been a habit. Now Suddenly This rain.”
“We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.”
“In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.”

Source : BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”
“It takes a bee to get the honey out”

Source : Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]
“I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.”

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