"Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc. Don't say, don't write 'etc'. Make an effort to exhaust the subject, even if that seems grotesque, or pointless, or stupid. You still haven't looked at anything, you've merely picked out what you've long ago picked out."

-- Georges Perec

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“Howard Marks is very intelligent and well read, eloquent, witty, charming. I think it was those qualities that got him through. I was interested to explore that because generally, we perceive criminals as dark, twisted, angry characters. Howard isn't any of those. He was punished for his crime, released from prison, and has lived to tell the tale.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A policy of subsidizing failures will end in an economy strewn with capital-guzzling industries long past their time of profitability - old companies that cannot create jobs themselves, but can stand in the way of job creation.”
“The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.”
“The truth is not being aired in the West. Itâ€™s a surreal perversion of history thatâ€™s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq â€˜WMDâ€™ campaign.”
“The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.”

Source : Raymond Williams (2001). “The Long Revolution”, p.311, Broadview Press
“There are three kinds of nature in man, as Nicetas Stethatos further explains: the carnal man, who wants to live for his own pleasure, even if it harms others; the natural man, who wants to please both himself and others; and the spiritual man, who wants to please only God, even if it harms himself. The first is lower than human nature, the second is normal, the third is above nature; it is life in Christ.”
“Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered”
“Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.”

Source : "Unterweysung der Messung (A Course on the Art of Measurement)". Book by Albrecht Durer, 1525.

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