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- There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Mite Makes Right, 1994
- Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping?
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994
- You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994
- My masculinity isn't hinged on whether or not I knit.
- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994
- We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- Talking perceptions, people. Do we really see each other for what we really are, or do we just see what we want to see, the image distorted by our own personal lenses? I lost someone today and the funny thing is, I don't even know who she was.
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Lovers and Madmen, 1994
- Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life.
- Charles Rosin, Northern Exposure, Aurora Borealis, 1990
- There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.
- Charles Rosin, Northern Exposure, Aurora Borealis, 1990
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