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For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#attempts #clearly #failures #fiction #had

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#became #literary #marriage #our #ours

I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other. ↗

— Chris Ware

#any #be nice #cartoonist #each #i

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#commercial #decided #i #market #mass

There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#bad #could #doubt #ever #everything

A case of can't do with, can't do without, that's why I married him again. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#case #him #i #married #why

People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#down #ella #ella fitzgerald #entertainment #fitzgerald

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. ↗

— George Washington

#burdens #governments #history #laid #marvel

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. ↗

— George Washington

#citizen #defense #down #enjoys #even

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#because #began #black #black community #black family