“Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide; and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself - whoever himself may be - is immortal; and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.” HumansMayCountryPlayArtistHuman BeingsSuicideCommittedLawyerImmortalityBombsImmortalAtomic BombGood LawyerSpacetime Author:e. e. cummings
“My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.” WarMotherArtistFatherMetsChineseParisBombsAxesSmugglingProvenceTrapezeCadetsTrapeze Artists Author:Colin Meloy