“I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
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On his life at Mill Grove, in Pennsylvania http://pa.audubon.org/centers_mill_grove.html in "Audubon's Story of His Youth" edited by Maria R. Audubon, in Scribner's Magazine Vol. XIII, No. 3, (March 1893), p. 278

Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 4: Beauty

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“I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.”
opening paragraph, chapter 1
The Big Sleep (1939)
Context: It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.

Address to the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Boston, Massachusetts (30 July 1903), printed in "Account of the Boston Riot," Boston Globe (31 July 1903) http://web.archive.org/20071031084056/www.historycooperative.org/btw/Vol.7/html/235.html