"It was an incredible way to grow up, because words that you're taught - these definite things - you realize they sort of beautifully fall apart; that words are tenuous. In the middle of a large word, there's a small word that possibly contradicts the larger word. So I grew up where, on the one hand, the only thing I would ever think of doing was something in writing, music, or art, and on the other hand, I could've reacted strongly against it because it would've been a way to rebel."

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Vito Acconci

#Art Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Fall Quotes

“The moment is never perfect. It's like that right now - in my head I'm being super lucid, but you never are. You're always fumbling.”
“All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.”
“China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does.”
“Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.”
“It's an expansion. And it's a stealth mechanism to put the tentacles of socialized medicine even deeper into society.”
“It is actually helpful to acknowledge the truth that we are just as quirky as everyone else and that God loves quirky!”

Source : Stasi Eldredge (2016). “Beautiful Now: 90 Days of Experiencing God's Dreams for You”, p.60, David C Cook
“Regardless of what we go through in life, there is always purpose wrapped within the pain.”

Source : O.J. Brigance, Peter Schrager (2013). “Strength of a Champion: Finding Faith and Fortitude Through Adversity”, p.136, Penguin
“The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, equality before the law, freedom of conscience, thought, and expression, human rights, and liberal democracy- quite an achievement, surely, for any civilization- - remain the best, and perhaps the only, means for all people, no matter of what race or creed, to reach their full potential and live in freedom.”

Source : Ibn Warraq (2010). “Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays”

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