In modern American style, his job, not his past, defined him.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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Category Archives: 2059 – Quote Unquote
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
~ William Faulkner
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Cubism is no different from any other school of painting. The same principles and the same elements are common to all. The fact that for a long time cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it, means nothing. I do not read English, and an English book is a blank to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist, and why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?
~ Pablo Picasso
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I understood that no one lives forever, but there are certain people whose power and presence so thoroughly penetrate your view of things that contemplating their absence feels as strange as imagining having never been born yourself.
~ Walter Kirn
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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Midday Music Fix
The Police – Walking On The Moon
Video directed by Derek Burbidge. Shot at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on October 23, 1979.
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No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.
~ Milan Kundera
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I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
~ Haruki Murakami
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It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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