"Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it."

-- Claes Oldenburg

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“France, they're the world champion at soaking the rich on taxes. And at one point, they had what they called a hyper tax, 75 percent, and GÃ©rard Depardieu and many others left the country.”
“When Ma died, I didn't know how to go on, either. I don't know how. I don't feel the same know, not exactly. Now that I see that one day comes after another and you get through them one measure at a time. But I'd like to go, not like Fonda Nye, I don't want to die, I just want to go, away, out of the dust.”

Source : Karen Hesse (1997). “Out of the Dust”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.
“The problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.”
“There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.”
“In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.”
“A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility”
“An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.”
“Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.”

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