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“It was probably a mistake to allow gold to rise so high.”
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“Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known.”
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“You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!”
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“When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different.”
Source : "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, 1995.
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“Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at." When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come up with a few more, but he'll need some time to think.”
Source : David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”
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“Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.”
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“My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.”
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“Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.”
Source : Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”
