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Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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I don't write for any particular kind of person. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

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The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#expansion #ideology #indefinite #into #liberty

Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress, Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please. ↗

— Samuel Wesley

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In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#dancing #depression #evening #folks #good

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings. ↗

— Tom Wesselmann

#anything #anyway #approached #before #care