Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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With rebellion, awareness is born.
~ Albert Camus
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Millions of artist create; only a few thousands are discussed or accepted by the spectator and many less again are consecrated by posterity.
~ Marcel Duchamp
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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
~ Mark Twain
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Wired Magazine – June 1996 Issue
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love — first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
~ Albert Camus
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I do not believe in painting per se – A painting is made not by the artist but by those who look at it and grant it their favors.
~ Marcel Duchamp
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
~ Mark Twain
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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid
conforming to my own tastes.
~ Marcel Duchamp
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