Mark Dunn quotes
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“Lately, I haph startet painting my torso in pretty, motley hews. I sit in phront oph the mirror in the sleepy-room. I atmire my hantyworg. I am a hooman apstrat paining.”
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“On Wednesday, July 19, the Council, having gleaned and discerned, released its official verdict: the fall of the tile bearing the letter "Z" constitutes the terrestrial manifestation of an empyrean Nollopian desire, that desire most surely being that the letter "Z" should be utterly excised--fully extirpated--absolutively heave-ho'ed from our communal vocabulary!”
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“Perhaps in time, Ella, the words we have lost will fade, and we will all stop summoning them by habit, only to stamp them out like unwanted toadstools when they appear. Perhaps they will eventually disappear altogether, and the accompanying halts and stammers as well: those troublesome, maddening pauses that at present invade and punctuate through caesura all manner of discourse. Trying so desperately we all are, to be ever so careful.”
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“Love one another, push the perimeter of this glorious language. Lastly, please show proper courtesy; open not your neighbor's mail.”
-- Mark DunnSource : Mark Dunn (2010). “Ella Minnow Pea”, p.49, MP Publishing
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“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”
-- Mark DunnSource : Mark Dunn (2010). “Ella Minnow Pea”, p.8, MP Publishing
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.11, Courier Corporation
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“For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.”
Source : Abraham Cowley (1779). “The Poems of Cowley”, p.113
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“I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.”
Source : Alexej von Jawlensky, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen (1994). “Alexej von Jawlensky: 25/9-27/11/1994, Museum Boymans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam”, Univ of Washington Pr
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“The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.”
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