"Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now."

-- Andreas Gursky

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“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”
“First person to appreciate the good points of others is always special in life as he or she manifests his or her leadership through initiatives.”
“When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.”
“We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less. If we lose sight of that perspective, everything can desperately suffer.”
“I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.”
“Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.”
“He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar in its manufactures, its works of genius, its medicines, its agriculture, its customs, and its policy. He only is a useful traveller, who brings home something by which his country might be benefitted; who procures some supply of want, or some mitigation of evil, which may enable his readers to compare their condition with that of others, to improve it whenever it is worse, and whenever it is better to enjoy it.”
“Garner knowledge, by any means possible”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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