#rim

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#baroque #contemporary #epochs #expressions #findings

At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#could #crime #down #half-way #here

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#been #decisions #executive #fall #happiest

It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#criminals #destroy #limits #permission #puts

We will never win this war until we understand the effect that Guantanamo Bay has had on the overall war effort. And we'll never get the support of the American people if we can't prove to them that these folks that we're dealing with are not common criminals. We're going to keep them - keep you safe from them. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#american people #bay #common #criminals #dealing

We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#create #criminal #dangerous #day #fifty

I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#did #elite #group #i #know

I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#always #any #assigned #autobiography #aversion

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. ↗

— Robert Graves

#anthropologists #between #connecting #forget #language

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode. ↗

— Spalding Gray

#continues #crime #explode #face #fact