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“Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.”
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“The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.”
Source : "Exclusive Interview: Colm Toibin Talks About His New Story Collection". Interview with Anis Shivani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2011. 
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“I had highfalutin ideas about being a serious actress when I was 16, 17, and first signed at Universal. I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.”
Source : "Piper Laurie White Christmas" by Edvins Beitiks, www.sfgate.com. December 17, 1998.
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“Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.”
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“We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept compromise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves.”
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“In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either of profit or gratification, rather than run the risk of its display. This latter evil is never felt under a good government.”
Source : Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.389
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“Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians?”
Source : "Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians?" by Kris Maske, uproxx.com. October 30, 2013.
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“the obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks.”
