Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
~ J.D. Salinger
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. We assert that only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. That is why we profess spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
~ Mark Rothko
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Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.
~ Eric Hoffer
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The artist is of no importance.
~ William Faulkner
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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If one major lesson of the French Revolution is that people make history, another is that it rarely turns out as planned.
~ Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic
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A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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Midday Music Fix
KT Tunstall – Black Horse & The Cherry Tree (Later Archive 2004)
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Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy — but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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