"With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings."

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Source : Robert Walser (2014). “Jakob von Gunten”, p.140, New York Review of Books

Robert Walser

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“The Internet is such a paradoxical space - it's limitless and totally bounded, apparently free yet corporate-controlled, apparently invisible yet surveilled, a place of disembodiment where bodies are policed and enviolenced, a place that is apparently 'nowhere'.”

Source : "'Art as a sacred event'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. April 7, 2015.
“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”

Source : "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.
“Conventional wisdom would have one believe...”
“The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat”
“And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her”
“He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price.”
“Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.”
“The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.”

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