"Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!"

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

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“It's hard to fathom the psychology of the economics of art. I don't quite understand it, and I don't necessarily want to understand it.”
“It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of seven-year-olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you updating your status and you realize that every status update is just a variation on a single request: "Would someone please acknowledge me?”

Source : Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal (Enhanced Edition)”, p.161, Random House Group
“I have a, shall we say, morbid personality.”
“Hunter S. Thompson brings a lunatic genius to ordinary events, and I bring an ordinary sensibility to lunatic events.”
“I know that this is the internet, and we're all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn't hurt to try to be nice.”
“I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.”

Source : Address to the Empire Club and the Royal Commonwealth Society, June 26, 1996.
“I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.”
“I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.”

Source : Claes Oldenburg, International Council of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Tate Gallery (1970). “Claes Oldenburg: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum, the Tate Gallery, London 24 June - 16th August 1970”

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