"Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects."

-- Rudolf Arnheim

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“When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.”
“The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team.”
“I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.”

Source : Margaret Walker (2014). “Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker”, p.23, University of Georgia Press
“According to government auditors, the stimulus money is being held up because there aren't enough government workers to oversee the spending. So follow me, in other words, government workers who aren't there are needed to spend money we don't have to create jobs that don't exist.”
“Pardon the plug, but what I like most about Toronto is Metro Morning's audience. I think it's got to be the most multi-faceted, multi-lingual, omni-curious collection of plugged-in people I've ever encountered.”
“There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.”
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.”
“Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.”

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