"A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels."

-- Andy Goldsworthy

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“It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her, get together as adolescents, by magic, and go on together, fighting for one another, into old age, never wavering.”

Source : Norman Rush (2013). “Subtle Bodies”, p.11, Granta Books
“Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.”
“Do I suffer for my art? Well, I get a lot of flatulence when I'm nervous.”
“When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.”
“Whatever we say here today is not against any party or person. We are not here to do politics. I have not stood up here to save a government... we want swaraaj, the people's rule, in Delhi.”
“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”

Source : Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.36, Penguin
“The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.”
“If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.”

Source : "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, 1968.

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