“Another book that came to mean a good deal to Margaret was Two Years Before the Mast, by Mr. Dana. She read it to her sisters twice, all the while making bright pictures in her own mind of the wild and inaccessible coast of California. These pictures subsequently turned out to be entirely wrong.”
— Jane Smiley, Private Life
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
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"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
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