"So rich people could go slumming? Come on, give me a break [itâ€™s a] masturbatory fantasy for Anna Wintour and Vogue. They always go and try to co-opt what they canâ€™t own. They try to co-opt authenticity and turn it into something boring."

-- Legs McNeil

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“The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.”
“Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.”
“The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.”
“Somehow, I've been blessed to be able to have the young spirit inside - not feel like every year I get a year older. I feel like every year I get a year younger. I don't wake up in the morning with aches and pains.”
“The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.”

Source : Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited
“We can't use the word normal anymore because it's sort of come to be politically incorrect, because normal implies a classification, and categorizations, and exclusions, and so forth. So neurotypical is the word that we now have to use for what I call normal behavior. Neurotypical behaviors are those kinds of behaviors within the range of usual human conduct that do not rise to the level of a disorder.”

Source : "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.
“When we hold it (amber) in our hands, we hold also that furious epoch where rioted all monsters and poisons, where death fecundated and life destroyed, where superabundance demanded such existences, no souls, but fiercest animal fire - just for that I hate it!”

Source : Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Alfred Bendixen (1989). “The Amber Gods, and Other Stories”, p.56, Rutgers University Press
“Let the music diffuse all the tension.”

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