I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American.

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Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

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I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

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No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.

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It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

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We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

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Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

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Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

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These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.

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I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

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