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It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there. ”
Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something. ”
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. ”
The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for. ”
Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes. ”
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. ”
I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country. ”
The goal of art-making in general is communication. ”
There's something of a painting of a woman that represents all women - and by extension, all of humanity - that I just find very exciting. It's a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ”
As an artist, it's possible to get tired of yourself. ”