#rent

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. ↗

— E. B. White

#democracy #half #more #people #recurrent

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization. ↗

— Edmund White

#biography #continual #different #discovery #feels

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer. ↗

— Jack White

#art #builds #buyer #fill #grocery

I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old. ↗

— Jack White

#away #bits #blew #circle #crowd

I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things. ↗

— Jack White

#beautiful #beautiful word #could #different #different things

The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph. ↗

— Jack White

#blues #elected #fact #i #inherent

We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me. ↗

— Jack White

#different #different way #family #grade #grade school

I felt betrayed by him, extremely betrayed. He made me believe that if I followed a certain protocol of supplements and different drugs that I could become number 1 in the world. ↗

— Kelli White

#believe #betrayed #certain #could #different

Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac. ↗

— Meg White

#appeared #bad #bad thing #before #cadillac

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge. ↗

— Patrick White

#australia #before #cambridge #could #eighteen