"Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp"

-- Andrew O'Hagan

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“The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.”
“I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.”
“I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment.”
“Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.”
“I'd never even seen a play by the time I was 24 years old.”
“The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale...”
“When you're out of willpower you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.”
“Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and time for knitting all over the place. The time spent riding the bus each day? That's a pair of socks over a month. Waiting in line? Mittens. Watching TV? Buckets of wasted time that could be an exquisite lace shawl.”

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