George Smith Patton

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    “The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil’s traps for artists.”
    —Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

    “An accent mark, perhaps, instead of a whole western accent—a point of punctuation rather than a uniform twang. That is how it should be worn: as a quiet point of character reference, an apt phrase of sartorial allusion—macho, sotto voce.”
    —Phil Patton (b. 1953)