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"If it's going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it's not a world that I want to live in." -Tom Ford

"The greatest Americans have not been born yet...they are waiting patiently for the past to die..." -Saul Williams

“When I am near the end of a book, I have to sleep in the same room with it.” -Joan Didion

"A few times in my life I've had moments of absolute clarity, when for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments." -David Scearce

“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” -Marilyn Monroe

"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."
-A. Burroughs