"The impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty."

-- Barnett Newman

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“In the present moment, you are beyond all definition. This means that you are no longer defined by the pain and limitations of the past. You are no longer defined by your judgments, opinions or beliefs nor are you defined by the judgment, opinions or beliefs of others.”
“Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.”
“The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss, first nudity, etc., with these shared landmarks becoming more widely spaced and innocuous as days turn to years, until eventually you're left with first visit to a National Trust property or some such.”
“In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.”
“Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are just bizarre. The mix seems to work well.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.”

Source : "A Senator Whom Colleagues Are Hesitant to Cross" by Carl Hulse, www.nytimes.com. October 25, 2003.
“when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.”
“Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.”

Source : Karl Mannheim (2013). “Man & Soc Age Reconstructn”, p.65, Routledge

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