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- The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on. - Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), Chicago Poems (1916) "Fog"
- I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), Cornhuskers (1918) "Prairie"
- Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), New York Times Feb. 13, 1959
- An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3
- Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8
- The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality"
- For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2
- Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 4
- Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
- John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925), quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
- When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), The Devil and the Good Lord (1951) act 1
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