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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I think therefore I am troubled = RENEE DESCARTES<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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Thursday, October 31, 2013

The Ultimate V-word

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Vanity was what you needed to be a genuine artist. Vanity on a terrific scale.
You could talk all you wanted about stick-to-it-iveness, Faith-in-yourself
but nobody but an egotistical dumb-bell would have such blind faith in himself
that he'd stick to it for years, not noticing he was no better than anybody else.
Dawn Powell
Angels On Toast




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Footnote
The next Dawn Powell page is here.
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  1. AnonymousNovember 2, 2013 at 4:10 AM

    Such truth

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    1. Paul OliverioNovember 2, 2013 at 1:25 PM

      Even truth is subject to vanity. That's why we say things like
      "everlasting truth" and "absolute truth."

      Truth has a vast wardrobe of adjectives.

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