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“I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.”
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“The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.”
Source : Bob Hicok (2013). “Elegy Owed”, p.53, Copper Canyon Press
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“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.”
Source : Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.318, Modern Library
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“Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials.”
Source : Thomas Frank (2008). “The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule”, p.3, Macmillan
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“Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a web of lies and creeping terror, and a love song to the beauty and power of being different. At the novel's heart is the kind of grace Carey is known for: an illumination of the strength that lies hidden inside all of us.”
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“The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.”
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“What does this mean 'mailer daemon'? Satan, are you messing with the e-mail system already?”
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“Love is not a given, it's a state that we work toward and experience gradually.”