Every man has his personal devil waiting for him somewhere.
~ John le Carré
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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I’m no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don’t believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course, but art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be. I know it’s crazy.
~ J.D. Salinger
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In every crisis, in every confrontation that has come my way, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
~ John le Carré
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A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call ‘democracy’ is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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It’s partly true, too, but it isn’t all true. People always think something’s all true.
~ J.D. Salinger
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Wired Japan – June 1997 Issue
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In every war zone that I’ve been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought.
~ John le Carré
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Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
~ J.D. Salinger
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