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said Dorothy.

"Because they're cross-grained, or ill-tempered, or disagreeable?"

"Not exactly that."

"What then?" asked Brooke.

"Because they're just nobodies. They are not anything particular to anybody and so they go on living until they die. ..."

p 232 (book 1)- Priscilla had taught her to regard herself, - indeed, they had both so regarded themselves,-as born to eat and drink, as little as might be, and then to die.

The Cubist Painters - Guillaume Apollinaire - 1913

"As for me, I am not afraid of art and I have not one prejudice with regard to the painter's materials.

Mosaicists paint with marble or coloured wood. There is mention of an Italian artist who painted with excrement; during the French revolution blood served somebody

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as paint. You may paint with whatever material you please, with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, candelabra, pieces of oil-cloth, collars, wallpaper or newspaper... "

4-13-84

In the Year of Jubillee by George Gissing - 1894

p 369 "One thing I'm quite sure of, Nancy" she added, "and that is, that education makes life very much harder to live. That's why I don't hold with educating the poor - not beyond the reading and writing. Without education, life is very plain, though it may be a struggle. But from what I have seen of highly-taught people, I'm very sure they suffer worse in their minds than the poor ever do in their bodies."

4-19-84

Simenon's Last Case by Leslie Garis NYT magazine 4-22-84

"These are the kind of books they keep writing about me," ....

"Do they say anything true about you" I ask.

"They never understand."