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• Love is being stupid together. -- Paul Valery
• It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
  -- David Hockney...
• I'm walking to work this morning and it's a lovely spring day, and I'm walking up Sixth Avenue and I see one of those mime performers.
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• A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
  -- Jean Paul Richte...