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"True friendship is like sound health. The value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
  • Charles Caleb Cotton
    (04/28/1630 – 02/16/1687)
    English writer (there is a Charles Caleb Colton from the 18th century who I may be mis-citing here, but I don't find specific dates, so will leave this one here for now -s)
"Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do."
"I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that." Keith Haring
"Books about books is fun but frivolous." Angela Carter
"Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them." John W. Gardner
"If you can bring yourself to imagine Liberace as King Lear, you will perhaps have some concept of what takes place in what is indubitably the worst musical since Mel Brooks's Springtime For Hitler."
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