"There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of saying a thing becomes a part of what is said, every work of art is unique and requires fresh attention."

-- Flannery O'Connor

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“Everyone now claims to be a moderniser and it's obvious, really. I mean, no one now says 'We need to go backwards... to the days of Lord Salisbury'.”
“Today I saw a red and yellow sunset and thought, how insignificant I am! Of course, I thought that yesterday too, and it rained.”
“My life was incoherent to me. I felt it quivering, spitting out broken teeth.”
“Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.”
“Macro worries are like sports talk radio. Everyone has a good opinion which probably means that none of them are good.”
“Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach an absolute, to find the course of human events to a final end. It is not reason that has promised to eliminate risk in human undertakings; it is the emotional needs of men.”
“It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region.”
“All I want out of music is to think to myself, this could be in a makeover montage.”

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