Lillian Bassman famous quotes

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  • The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.

  • Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.

  • Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

  • Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.

  • It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

  • The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.

  • The problem with a politician’s quote on Facebook is you don’t know whether or not they really said it.

  • The problem with the internet is that anyone can just make stuff up

  • I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.

  • Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything

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